We calculated LJ-diversity per site using the Shannon entropy from the “hillR” R package for both species and genetic diversity. The Shannon entropy is a metric of evenness that takes into account the ...

Scientists have discovered a potential new member of the human family tree. This mysterious species, named Homo juluensis, includes the enigmatic Denisovans — our ancient human relatives whose stories ...

What makes the Xujiayao findings so remarkable is that they possessed such large brains during a period when most other human species had considerably smaller cranial capacities. The Xujiayao humans ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

The footprints were left in the mud by two different species "within a matter of hours, or at most days," said paleontologist Louise Leakey, co-author of the research published Thursday in the ...

(Louise Leakey via AP) Scientists study fossil footprints for clues about co-existing species of early human ancestors at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, in ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories ...

Scientists have now discovered at a location called Koobi Fora, providing the first evidence that two species - Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus - shared the same landscape. A fossil footprint ...

For now it’s impossible to know exactly how the two species interacted. New clues about their behavior could be revealed with future excavations of more trackway surfaces. But it is fascinating ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a set of remarkable footprints found recently in East Africa has revealed that two species of extinct human ancestor crossed paths within hours of each other some ...

Fossil Footprints in Kenya Show Two Ancient Human Species Coexisted By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage ...