Hominin Evolution News Today

New research conducted by an international team, published in the journal Science, reveals that early human species were capable of adapting to a variety of landscapes and food resources. This adaptability would have strengthened our ancestors' resilience against historical climate changes. Our g

Homo naledi had a brain less than half the size of our own. Yet the new research claims it had cognitive abilities far beyond what we might expect.

This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.

Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.