Although various hypotheses and models have been proposed, refined, and/or abandoned for at least a century, the concept of environmental determinism and hominin evolution is still a hot topic today.

A Pleistocene-era hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has been conclusively identified as Denisovan through a new paleoproteomic analysis. This study provides the first direct molecular evidence that ...

The iconic caves some 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, is one Africa's largest collection of hominin fossils and was closed to the public in 2022 due to flooding that destroyed ...

English is the only language that turned Neanderthals, the long extinct Paleolithic hominin, into an insult and epithet. Since the naming of “Neanderthal Man” after the discovery of a skull ...

Located within the Cradle of Humankind, a Unesco World Heritage Site, the caves have yielded some of the most important hominin fossil discoveries, including the iconic Mrs Ples (1947) and Little ...

This important study advances our understanding of genome annotations for chiton genomes. It provides a solid estimation of syntentic relationships for the chromosomes of the four new genomes plus an ...

This fundamental study explores how genotypic changes relate to phenotypic stasis or variation within chitons, a molluscan group. Chitons are significant because their ancient body plan has remained ...

Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 years ago, leaving modern humans as the sole-surviving hominin left on Earth. Now a new theory suggests that the replacement could have been down to how ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was finally identified as belonging to the elusive Denisovans—a species whose only ...

the success of finding drinking water daily to prevent dehydration and conserve energy played a substantial role in shaping hominin evolution. [3] The first of Coss and Keller’s studies showed ...

Located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site near Johannesburg, the Sterkfontein Caves have yielded some of the most important hominin fossil discoveries including the ...

An enigmatic fossil belonging to a once-unknown hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans in Southeast Asia has now been identified. Discovered in 2015, Penghu 1 is a fossil jawbone ...