Oldest hybrid found: Protein analysis of 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China shows interbreeding with Denisovans, predating all previously known human hybridization events. Genetic link ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

Oldest hybrid found: Protein analysis from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus fossils shows interbreeding with Denisovans, marking the earliest known human hybridization. Evolutionary impact: The discovery ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and ...

Bones from an extinct human ancestor have been recovered from the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown Homo erectus population in Southeast Asia that may have interacted with more modern humans, ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

Scientists in China have uncovered new information from six Homo erectus tooth fossils dating back around 400,000 years, suggesting a potential connection between Homo erectus and modern humans, while ...