A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly ... and that the first hominid to inhabit western Europe was not Homo antecessor, as we previously ...

The most primitive hominid yet found ... erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and possessing short ...

After a contentious sojourn in the lab of a senior Indonesian paleoanthropologist, most of the ancient hominid bones from the Indonesian island of Flores, published to acclaim in Nature last fall, are ...

It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each other in Laetoli, a hominid archeological site in Tanzania. As Hill dived out of ...

My academic interests are centred around environmental impacts on hominid evolution and better understanding the presence and evolution of archaic hominin species through Pleistocene Southeast Asia; ...