and the first migration of hominids outside Africa. The Nariokotome boy and his kind represent the beginning of a new phase of human prehistory.

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary innovation setting human ancestors, the hominids, apart from the apes.

Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): an experimental approach using cut-mark data. Journal of Human Evolution 33, 669-690 (1997). Domínguez ...

She is not the oldest member of the extended human family, but she is by far the most complete of the early hominids; most of her skull and teeth as well as extremely rare bones of her pelvis ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Its unusual structure challenges long-standing ideas about human evolution, hinting at a more diverse array of early Asian hominids than previously thought. Hidden within a cave system in ...

Using fire to keep predators away would have made it safe for early hominids to indulge in more REM (modern humans spend 25 percent of sleep in REM, compared with up to 15 percent for apes and ...

In the mid-1990s, scientists identified an early human relative known as Homo antecessor from about 80 fossils uncovered at a site near Sima del Elefante called Gran Dolina. Those remains date to ...

Olduvai Gorge, often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind, has advanced our understanding of early human life and tool use, with evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids.

Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): an experimental approach using cut-mark data. Journal of Human Evolution 33, 669-690 (1997). Domínguez ...