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The child, named Leti by researchers, died when it was between ages of four and six about 250,000 years ago. This is the first skull of a child Homo naledia ever to be discovered.
Homo rhodesiensis, a distant ancestor of modern man, is to be reclassified in an attempt to decolonise paleoanthropology
New analysis of a fossil tooth and stone tools from Shukbah Cave reveals Neanderthals used stone tool technologies thought to have been unique to modern...
BBC News Published image captionThe Neanderthal specimens have some features that are more characteristic of modern human teeth Prehistoric teeth unearthed at a site in Jersey reveal signs of interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species, scientists say. UK experts re-studied 13 teeth found between 1910 and 1911 at La Cotte de St Brelade in the island's south-west. They were long regarded as being typical Neanderthal specimens, but the reassessment also uncovered features characteristic of modern human teeth. The teeth may represent some of the last known Neanderthal remains. As such...