The oldest fossil of the human genus Homo has been unearthed in Ethiopia, a groundbreaking discovery that pushes the history of human evolution 400,000 years further into the past. Found at a site ...

PHOENIX — An international team led by researchers at Arizona State University has identified the oldest known fossil of the human genus, a discovery that marks a major new chapter in human ...

Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance Paper challenges the claim that the genus Homo originated in response to environmental changes Date: August 4, 2017 Source: George Washington ...

Business & Human Rights: Navigating "Minimum Safeguards" under the EU Taxonomy Regulation Tim Baines, Sam Eastwood, James Ford, Edouard Gergondet, Peter Pears, Findley Penn-Hughes, Dr. Johannes ...

Indeed, the Middle Pleistocene, also known as the Chibanian (774,000 to 129,000 years ago), represents a key transitional stage for the human genus, or Homo, yet this period remains poorly understood.

Fossils retrieved from an underground cave in South Africa may represent a previously unknown species of the human genus, Homo. The fossils come from at least 15 individuals recovered from a 30 ...

Meet the digital handy man. This is a reconstruction of the skull of one of the first known members of the human genus, Homo habilis, which means “handy man”, from about 1.8 million years ago ...

When naming the earliest species in the human genus, scientists have emphasized hands designed for toolmaking (H. habilis) and upright gaits (H. erectus).

Ability to Adapt Gave Early Humans the Edge Over Other Hominins Features thought to be characteristic of early Homo lineages actually evolved before Homo arose. Rather, our flexible nature defines us ...

So while the H. naledi fossils undeniably add to the story of human evolution, they also highlight the difficulties of defining exactly what makes a fossil species human in the first place.

It’s a discovery that could change our understanding of early humans. An incredibly well-preserved, 1.8-million-year-old skull from Dmanisi, Georgia suggests the evolutionary tree of the genus ...

Each scientific name bears a genus term followed by a species term. In the human family tree, the genus Homo goes back about 3 million years and includes more than a dozen named hominin species ...