Why is Homo sapiens the only surviving human species among 18? Follow us on Google News (click on ☆) Reproductions of skulls of a Neanderthal (left), Homo sapiens (center), and Australopithecus ...

A cast of the skull of a 2.1 million-year-old Australopithecus africanus child, dubbed the Taung child, discovered in Taung, South Africa. | Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 In ...

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map.

The idea of Lemuria originated in the nineteenth century when scientists tried to explain the similarities in flora, fauna, ...