Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

There is considerable debate on when early humans developed the ability ... during the Middle Pleistocene Transition between 1.2 and 0.8 million years ago. At Engaji Nanyori in Oldupai Gorge ...

Alternatively, they may have lost the battle with early Homo ... two lineages, one would produce humans, the other would give rise to bonobos and chimps. 4.4 million years ago - Ardipithecus ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species ... over 2 million years ago.

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African ... Olduvai Gorge 2011. Between 1.2 and 1 million years BCE, the Oldupai region was dominated by semi-desert plains.

Currently, the oldest European sites yielding human fossils include Barranco León in Spain (1.5 million ... nearly 60 years ago, simply because the specialists of those early days of Romanian ...

With high confidence dating to 1.95 million years ago, it challenges established timelines and opens new debates about the pathways and adaptability of early human populations. The findings could ...