A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to have emerged in cultures more ancient than our own genus Homo to strip ...

The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor ... more than one early human species lived in Europe, and that the first hominid to inhabit western Europe was not Homo antecessor, as we ...

To date, the oldest hominid remains outside of the continent come from Romania and Georgia, with the latter assemblage – known as the Dmanisi hominids – dated to 1.8 million years ago.

It's only natural that we're curious about Neanderthals, our hominid kin who ... in the following feature as you uncover bones and artifacts and then try to figure out what the evidence suggests.

The hominids evolved and branched into at least twelve distinct species. Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting. She has M.As in biological anthropology and science writing. The "discovery" turned out to be the biggest hoax in the ...