Footprints in Kenya ‘show distant relatives of modern humans coexisted’
Researchers say fossilised marks were apparently made in same place within days of each other about 1.5m years ago About 1.5m years ago a big-toothed...
Category : Anthropology
Maya twins myth may have influenced child sacrifices, study suggests
DNA testing on 64 skeletons shows related boys were probably chosen as offerings in ancient city of Chichén Itzá Genetic analysis of the skeletons of...
Giant sloth pendants indicate humans settled Americas much earlier than thought
Scientists studied jewelry made from now extinct creatures and theorize that humans arrived in Americas 27,000 years ago New research suggests humans lived in South...
Bipedalism in humans may have come from foraging in treetops, research suggests
Walking on two legs may not have been linked to environmental shifts, as previously thought The ancestors of humans may have begun moving on two...
Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought
Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives The fossils of...
