The reconstruction of 27 complete human limb bones found in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) has helped to determine the height of various species of the Pleistocene era. Homo heilderbergensis, like ...

H. sapiens, H. heidelbergensis, H. Naledi Anthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said its age indicates at least three human species inhabited Africa around 300,000 ...

Homo heidelbergensis, shares features with both modern humans and our homo erectus ancestors. The early human species had a very large browridge, and a larger braincase and flatter face than older ...

Potential human ancestor Homo heidelbergensis used this 480,000-year-old bone hammer to create flint tools. UCL Institute of Archaeology Some 480,000 years ago, a group of 30 to 40 early hominins met ...

Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa, Europe and western Asia between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago. It was an early human ancestor that went extinct long before modern humans migrated to Eurasia from ...

The last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals was a tall, well-traveled species called Heidelberg Man, according to a new PLoS One study. The determination is based on the remains of a single ...

In the French cave of Arago, scientists has analyzed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis. It is the first time that an analytical method has allowed ...

A mysterious skull, discovered in a Greek cave decades ago, has been identified as belonging to Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct human ancestor. Recent dating techniques place the skull at ...

How did Homo sapiens come to rule the planet? It’s a question that many archaeologists have struggled to precisely answer, but new research offers fresh support to a longstanding theory: Ancient ...

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Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in Britain may have been related to other ...