University of Hawaii at Manoa Anthropology Professor Christopher Bae likens his discovery to piecing together a giant puzzle, ...

On Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the ...

It is considered by many researchers to belong to a species called Homo heidelbergensis - a common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. But scientists who have dated small samples of bone ...

H. sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis and migrating out of Africa, gradually replacing local populations of archaic humans. For most of history, all humans ...

Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to use fire. Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human.

Rulers and their courtiers are just a passing wind, though many close their eyes and ears to this truth. This tiny blue dot ...

They were made by the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor for modern humans and Neanderthals. Researchers found a shin bone belonging to one of them - it's the oldest human bone ...

The population decline may explain gaps in the African fossil record and could have impacted the genetic diversity of human ancestors, influencing the evolution of Homo heidelbergensis ...

Homo antecessor might have become extinct from Europe some 600,000 years ago and next came Homo heidelbergensis, followed by the Neanderthals and finally, the modern humans or Homo sapiens, who ...