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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With this process, the team managed to pin down Homo antecessor’s place in the family tree with greater precision than ever before. It had previously been put forward that this species was the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 oldest genetic material ever extracted from a human has revealed a 'sister group' of hominins related to Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals. Ancient proteins in the teeth of a fossil were ...

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 ...

Some of the dental features characteristic of Neanderthals were already present in Early Pleistocene Homo antecessor, according to a new study. Some of the dental features characteristic of ...