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Homo erectus

Rethinking Homo erectus and Denisovans with ancient proteins
Mixture demonstrated for old fossil teeth hints that anthropologists may have mixed ideas.
 • John Hawks
A new age for ‘Ubeidiya
The earliest Acheulean artifacts in Eurasia may be closely connected to their development in Africa.
 • John Hawks
A deep record of unknown hominins from Sulawesi
A cave known as Leang Bulu Bettue provides a record from the Middle Pleistocene across the arrival of modern people.
 • John Hawks
Fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés, Morocco, and crossroads of human evolution
Jaws, teeth, and a hyena-chewed femur may be close to the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people.
 • John Hawks
A possible archaic human from Borneo
The find of a single tooth from Gua Danang may be the first evidence of the archaic inhabitants of the island.
 • John Hawks
The problem skulls from Yunxian
The relationships of fossils from deep time in China may help reveal ancestral connections for the Denisovans
 • John Hawks
Hominins voyaged to Sulawesi before one million years ago
New report of stone artifacts from Calio place human relatives in Wallacea more broadly and earlier than anyone knew.
 • John Hawks
Human origins science in 1925: the good, the bad, and the fake
As I look back at a sometimes-confusing picture of a science in its early days, I see some connections with today's landscape.
 • John Hawks
The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins
Meta-analysis of butchered animal bones from East African sites shows that long-held assumptions about early hunters may be wrong.
 • John Hawks
New clues about human cardiovascular evolution
Studies of the aorta and the heart anatomy of humans and living great apes show some important differences.
 • John Hawks
A look at the Sima del Elefante face
When the global timeline passed one million years ago, more than half the span of hominin presence in Eurasia had already passed by.
 • John Hawks
Plant-eating and meat-eating in Australopithecus
A new approach to sampling nitrogen-15 in tooth enamel opens a window into the diets of early hominins.
 • John Hawks
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