If Homo floresiensis wasn’t a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought. Komodo dragons use their venomous […]
Category: homo erectus
Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA
Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans […]
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
careful with that, it’s an antique The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached […]
Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
That leaves a few possibilities: Denisovans, Homo heidelbergensis (the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and our species), or Homo erectus. […]