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Yunxian Homo Erectus Skulls Re-Dated to About 1.77 Million Years

Cosmogenic burial dating produced the age estimate, prompting independent experts to seek further verification.

First Afar Paranthropus Fossil Pushes Genus’ Range 1,000 Kilometers North

NYU-Led Reanalysis Points to Bipedalism in 7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

First Paranthropus Boisei Hand Reveals Human-Like Dexterity With Gorilla-Like Power

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Skull Recasts Early Human Family Tree

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Chinese Skull Tied to Denisovan-Linked Lineage, Pushing Homo Splits Earlier

Skhūl Child Fossil Shows Mixed Human–Neanderthal Traits, Pushing Interbreeding to 140,000 Years Ago

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding

Fossil Teeth in Ethiopia Point to Oldest Homo and a Possible New Australopithecus

Most Primate Societies Lack Fixed Sex-Based Dominance