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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.