A partial Homo antecessor skull that was unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain. José-Manuel Benito/Wikicommons Humans and Neanderthals split from a common ancestor ...

An artist’s reconstruction of Homo antecessor, a hominid species that butchered and ate its own kind. A new study suggests the cannibalism was a form of territorial defense. jlmaral/Flickr The ...

In 1997, scientists announced that an abundance of unique human fossils excavated from a cavern in Spain made it clear that it was time to add a new species to the human genus: Homo antecessor. But ...

It’s hard to piece together the full history of human evolution from piles of old bones. But now, scientists have made use of a new method to study proteins in dental enamel of an 800,000-year-old ...

A protein analysis suggests the supposed cannibal species Homo antecessor was distantly related to humans and Neanderthals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Two studies of ancient humans have shed new light on the last common ancestor we share with Neanderthals. An extinct species that was once in the frame now looks unlikely to be the one. Another now ...

Some of the dental features characteristic of Neanderthals were already present in Early Pleistocene Homo antecessor, according to a study published September 19, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

A nearly million-year-old tooth is giving scientists new insights into the murky history of human origins. Researchers have analyzed dental enamel from the tooth of a mysterious human ancestor known ...

The discovery on an eroded English beach of a set of human footprints dating to about 900,000 years ago is one of those encounters that send a shiver down the spine – rather like Robinson Crusoe’s ...

Thirty years after the first discovery that changed everything we knew about early Europeans, the researchers at Spain's Atapuerca sites are back in the same dirt—and they're finding more. During the ...