A new fossil pushes evidence for the human genus, Homo, back hundreds of thousands of years.Discovered on a hilltop in Ethiopia, the 2.8-million-year-old piece of a jaw containing five teeth is ...

Dental remains confirm that Homo Naledi belongs to the Homo genus, though their timeline placement remains uncertain. The ...

These prehistoric members of our genus, ‘Homo,’ occupy different branches of the human family tree.

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

We are the only surviving lineage in the Homo genus. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), our last remaining relatives in the Homo group, went extinct about 40,000 years ago. Defining species ...

What’s new — The earliest species in the genus humans belong to, Homo, are thought to be Homo habilis and Homo erectus. Homo habilis lived 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago, and Homo ...

We all know that Neanderthals and Modern Humans are closest related to each other when it comes to different species in the Homo Genus, of course not talking about subspecies but I bet you ...

So, for a long time, a leading idea was that, while this genus overlapped in time and space with our early Homo ancestors and close relatives, they evolved a totally different strategy for ...

In that scheme, myriad species branched off in different directions, some dying out and others leading to the Homo genus and eventually to us. Science News headlines, in your inbox.

However, when van Holstein studied the evolution of our own genus, Homo, things started to get much more peculiar. "The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation," she said.