The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is the ...

Two-million-year-old teeth unlock new secrets of ancient human relatives - Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

The researchers studied scratches on teeth from a 1.8 million-year-old jaw from Tanzania. The jaw belonged to a species called Homo habilis, which is one of the least similar to modern humans in ...