The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...

Research on ancient footprints in Kenya demonstrates coexistence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei 1.5 million years ...

In the heat of an African savanna 1.5 million years ago, two distinct hominin species appear to have walked the same grounds. These tracks, preserved in sediments near the present-day Lake Turkana in ...

In the heat of an African savanna 1.5 million years ago, two distinct hominin species appear to have walked the same grounds. These tracks, preserved in sediments near the present-day Lake Turkana ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Subscribe now!) More than a million years ago, on the shores of what would become Lake Turkana one day in modern-day Kenya, two distinct hominin species shared a landscape teeming with life.

“Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to organize the hominin fossils from Asia ...