Humans, Homo sapiens, have unique features compared with other closely related hominin species and primates, including the ...

"They had a skull that is more elongated than most of ... In other words, all of the Homo sapiens ever found - including those uncovered far beyond Africa - may trace their ancestral linkages ...

Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig A reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens skull based on scans of multiple original fossils Prof Hublin was speaking at a news conference at the College de ...

A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull, which was originally discovered in Greece in the 1970s, belonged to a member of an early population of Homo sapiens and is ...

sapiens is the Omo Kibish 1 skeleton from Ethiopia, [which is] about 230,000 years old." This fossil skull has a tall, globe-shaped head and a human-like chin, which has led researchers to call it the ...

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Neanderthals had a long, low skull (compared to the more globular skull of modern humans ... Some previous claims for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour have dating uncertainties or lie within inferred ...

He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from Paviland in Wales (the famous 'Red Lady' who wasn't a lady) and, since that is a partial skeleton lacking a skull, a roughly contemporaneous ...

One of the "last" Neanderthal individuals has been found in a cave in France, revealing a previously unknown lineage.

In the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were ... a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Neanderthals populated Europe, Asia until they abruptly died off 40,000 years ago File Photo: A rebuilt skull and a physical ...