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A newly named ancient species that lived over half a million years ago might have been a direct ancestor of modern humans. Scientists have officially named this ancient species Homo bodoensis. While Homo sapiens currently inhabit the planet, there were several other ancient species that were previously alive, such as Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo floresiensis.... Read more »

Part One By Dr Alex Menez In my reportage of the Calpe Conference last year I wrote about how restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic had limited the number of people that attended. Of how difficult it had been to meet and greet friends and ...

A team of scientists claim to have identified a new “ancient human ancestor” in Africa. However, not everyone agrees.

Experts reevaluated the human fossil record from the era between 129,000 and 774,000 years ago. That yielded a new species of human ancestor.

The Middle Pleistocene brought about the emergence of modern humans in Africa some 300,000 years ago. But plenty else happened during the epoch, stretching from 774,000 to 129,000...

Researchers who reanalysed ancient fossils say they come from a new group of hominins living in Africa around 600,000 years ago, and so deserve a new species name

The Homo bodoensis species lived in Africa and south-eastern Europe and is named after a skull found in Ethiopia.

It's been decades since I first read 1984, but it clearly is a book for our current cultural and political moment. I bought a copy at a used book store the other day and the tattooed and purple-haired young lady at the register gave me a curious...

Researchers found similarities between the shrinking of human brains and the reduction of brain size caused by the specialization of roles in ant societies.

The NASA Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids is expected to launch Oct. 16. Unique to this mission are the multiple ways that ASU is involved: The spacecraft is named in honor of the “Lucy” fossil discovered in 1974 by ASU's Donald Johanson; onboard is an ASU-led instrument; and watching the launch will be thousands of students who have attended the ASU-led “L’SPACE” Academy.