And when the Leakeys were pondering Homo habilis, they used a definition of Homo from 1955, which said that to be a member of the genus, you had to have some number of features in common with the ...

Skull 5 is unique not only because it is the most complete Homo skull ever found, but it also looks very different from the other skulls found at this site. It combines a small braincase — about ...

As we very recently noted, the origin of our own genus is a mystery. Some of the features that help define Homo were found in a species, Australopithecus sediba, that belongs to an entirely ...

Homo sapiens are the last surviving members of the genus Homo, every other species within our genus having gone extinct no ...

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 ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

In September 2013, two cave explorers on a routine exploration in South Africa happened upon a collection of fossils that would soon question our current understanding of humans’ ancestral history.

FromNature magazine.. Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The authors say that up ...

The Dmanisi hominins are likely something in between what we know as Homo erectus and an older, smaller member of our genus like Homo habilis (which lived between 2.4 and 1.4 million years ago).

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.