科学家们现在已经确认了超过十几个物种属于人属。那么，到底哪个才是最早的人类物种呢？答案其实并不十分明确。摩洛哥发现的化石表明，解剖学上的现代人类至少在30万年前就已经出现。但是，已知最古老的人类物种被称为巧手人（Homo habilis），或称“能人 ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed ...

This week, a world-first study has found “sex reversal” is surprisingly common among wild Australian bird species, Gabon’s ...

澳洲和印尼的考古学家上星期三（8月6日）在《自然》杂志上发表研究报告指出，这些发现可能会改变早期人类迁徙的理论。对文物遗址周围发现的沉积物和动物牙齿化石进行放射性测年显示，它们可追溯到104万至148万年前。

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought ...

This prehistoric species remained independent of the Neanderthal lineage in Europe, maintaining a close relationship with ...

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent ...

The first of our kind. Two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original ...

The Homo sapiens fossils were found to have increasingly more modern endocranial shapes in accordance with their geological age. Only fossils younger than 35,000 years show the same globular shape as ...