Did Cooking and Eating Meat Make Us Who We Are Today?

Did Homo erectus’ habit of increased meat eating lead to our body structure, and mental capacities that we have and know of today? A new paper claims perhaps this idea is not as correct as we thought…

The Oldest Modern Humans are now 36k years older than originally thought!

The oldest known AMH fossils are now even older! Meet Omo 1, our oldest H. sapiens ancestor!

In Memorandum: Richard Leakey 12/19/44-1/3/22

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, born to the famous paleoanthropologists Mary and Louis Leakey, passed away shortly after the start of the new year on January 2nd, in Kenya. Per the family’s wishes, we send our thoughts and well wishes to the Leakey family, and respect their request for distance, and time for mourning. We sendContinue reading “In Memorandum: Richard Leakey 12/19/44-1/3/22”

Ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, “walked like a human, but climbed like an ape.” New Fossils Improve Our Understanding of Bipedality and Being Human

*Breaking News!!!*

Join us today for some breaking news from the World of Paleoanthropology!

5:00 AM Nov. 23rd 2021 Pacific Time!

Do NOT miss out! This is some big news that will change the way in which we view early homo!