In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

This fossil isn’t an isolated case—it joins a growing list of Asian hominids, including the Denisovans and the Dali Man, that share distinctive cranial traits and signs of advanced tool use.

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As the African landscape shifted gradually from dense forests toward large patches of savannah, early hominids found their food supplies waning, leading them to descend from the trees and become ...

Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of early hominids who lived in what is now northern China were pursuing their next meal. They were skilled, organised hunters, having ...

The genetic information contained in the genomes of six species of hominids has been decoded. Hominids, such as chimpanzees and bonobos, are primates belonging to the superfamily Hominidae and are ...

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...