Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives ... ancestors who lived around 4.4 million years ago — and Australopithecus, which appeared about 2 million years later.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens ... With the discovery of several more Australopithecus fossils in 1936 and 1947, this time of adult specimens, Dart's view began ...

It is not clear whether Homo habilis developed directly from Australopithecus, but if so, it is likely to have been from one of the gracile, rather than robust species. Homo habilis was an ...

Australopithecus split into several different species. Some developed powerful teeth and jaws and became known as 'robust' while others were more lightly built and dubbed 'gracile'. HOMO HABILIS ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre ... an innovative stone tool developed by the Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Around 300,000 years ago, they began to shape stone cores from flint that they could ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split ... The 3.5-million-year-old Laetoli canine belonging to Australopithecus afarensis is the oldest ...

Furthermore, the traditional term "australopithecine," which grouped Australopithecus and Paranthropus ... floresiensis) and the enigmatic Homo species from Dmanisi have dramatic implications ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged ... sediba is younger than that of Homo, a “highly unlikely” scenario for a direct lineage. A series of ...