Early Hominins Competed with Saber-Toothed Cats 2 Million Years Ago

Updated 13 November, 2021 - 13:57 Sahir Homo erectus , literally upright man, is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene,…

Million-Year-Old Human Skull Found in China Reveals Evolutionary Secrets

Archaeologists in China have uncovered a human skull that is almost unimaginably old. While performing excavations in the central province of Hubei, a…

The Overlooked Secret to Human Evolution is “Downclimbing”

One of the watershed moments in the evolution of ‘human’ or ‘ Homo ’ history is when the first hominids descended from the…

Homo Erectus Mastered Oldowan and Acheulean Tools 2 Million Years Ago

While they first appeared on the lowland savannas of East Africa around two million years ago, the human ancestor Homo erectus soon expanded…