https://homininhistory.com/blog/ Articles on human evolution: hominin species, fossil sites, ancient DNA and the Stone Age. en-us Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://homininhistory.com/blog/yamnaya-steppe-herders https://homininhistory.com/blog/yamnaya-steppe-herders Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Yamnaya were steppe herders whose ancestry runs through most Europeans. What 216 ancient genomes in our atlas show, and why the language link is debated. https://homininhistory.com/blog/cheddar-man https://homininhistory.com/blog/cheddar-man Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Cheddar Man, Britain’s oldest near-complete skeleton, got dark skin in 2018. What his 10,000-year-old genome reveals, and where that skin call falls short. https://homininhistory.com/blog/early-european-farmers https://homininhistory.com/blog/early-european-farmers Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Early European farmers descended from Neolithic Anatolians who carried farming west 8,000 years ago. How four DNA studies and 110 atlas genomes trace the route. https://homininhistory.com/blog/malta-boy https://homininhistory.com/blog/malta-boy Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Mal’ta boy lived near Lake Baikal 24,000 years ago, yet his genome links Europeans and Native Americans. How one child’s arm bone redrew the Ice Age map. https://homininhistory.com/blog/ust-ishim-man https://homininhistory.com/blog/ust-ishim-man Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A thigh bone from a Siberian riverbank yielded a 45,000-year-old genome read 42 times over. How Ust’-Ishim man’s Neanderthal DNA works as a clock for our past. https://homininhistory.com/blog/toumai-skull-sahelanthropus https://homininhistory.com/blog/toumai-skull-sahelanthropus Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Toumaï skull from Chad may be the oldest known hominin. Why a forgotten thigh bone and six rival studies now decide if Sahelanthropus walked upright. https://homininhistory.com/blog/laetoli-footprints https://homininhistory.com/blog/laetoli-footprints Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Laetoli footprints froze a 3.66-million-year-old walk in volcanic ash. Who made the tracks, how tall they stood, and the new trails that rewrote the story. https://homininhistory.com/blog/australopithecus-sediba https://homininhistory.com/blog/australopithecus-sediba Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Australopithecus sediba pairs a Homo-like hand and pelvis with a 420 cc brain. What the Malapa skeletons show, and why its claim to be our ancestor is in doubt. https://homininhistory.com/blog/dmanisi-hominins https://homininhistory.com/blog/dmanisi-hominins Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Dmanisi hominins reached Georgia 1.8 million years ago with brains as small as 546 cc. What Skull 5 and a toothless elder reveal about the first Eurasians. https://homininhistory.com/blog/shanidar-neanderthals https://homininhistory.com/blog/shanidar-neanderthals Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Shanidar Neanderthals of Iraqi Kurdistan include a disabled man who survived for years and a woman buried 75,000 years ago. Was the flower burial real? https://homininhistory.com/blog/schoningen-spears-oldest-wooden-weapons https://homininhistory.com/blog/schoningen-spears-oldest-wooden-weapons Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Found in a German coal mine, the Schöningen spears are the oldest complete hunting weapons. How they were made, who used them, and why they ended a big debate. https://homininhistory.com/blog/chimpanzee-stone-age-primate-archaeology https://homininhistory.com/blog/chimpanzee-stone-age-primate-archaeology Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Chimpanzees left stone tools 4,300 years ago, and monkeys have used hammers for 3,000. How primate archaeology compares with the first human tools. https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-is-human-childbirth-so-hard https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-is-human-childbirth-so-hard Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Human childbirth is unusually difficult and often needs help. The obstetric dilemma, the rival energetics theory, and what fossil pelvises reveal about the origin. https://homininhistory.com/blog/is-human-evolution-still-happening https://homininhistory.com/blog/is-human-evolution-still-happening Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Humans are still evolving. Sea nomads with bigger spleens, Tibetan altitude genes, sickle-cell trait and the claims that turned out to be wrong, explained. https://homininhistory.com/blog/kennewick-man-the-ancient-one https://homininhistory.com/blog/kennewick-man-the-ancient-one Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Found in 1996, Kennewick Man is a 9,000-year-old skeleton that sparked a 20-year fight between scientists and tribes. What his DNA showed, and how it ended. https://homininhistory.com/blog/otzi-the-iceman https://homininhistory.com/blog/otzi-the-iceman Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ötzi the Iceman died in the Alps 5,300 years ago with an arrow in his shoulder. His genome, tattoos, last meal and copper axe reveal a life in the Copper Age. https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-long-did-early-humans-live https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-long-did-early-humans-live Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Did Stone Age people die at 30? Not quite. How long early humans, Neanderthals and hunter-gatherers really lived, and why average life expectancy is so misleading. https://homininhistory.com/blog/oldest-musical-instruments https://homininhistory.com/blog/oldest-musical-instruments Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The oldest musical instruments are 40,000-year-old flutes of bird bone and ivory. Plus a disputed Neanderthal flute and an Ice Age conch that still plays. https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-were-dogs-domesticated https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-were-dogs-domesticated Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Dogs were the first domestic animal, tamed by Ice Age hunters from a wolf population that no longer exists. What ancient DNA reveals about when and where. https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-did-humans-start-wearing-clothes https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-did-humans-start-wearing-clothes Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Clothing rarely fossilises, so how do we know when humans started wearing it? Lice DNA, bone tools, skinned foxes and 30,000-year-old flax fibres tell the story. https://homininhistory.com/blog/evolution-of-human-skin-color https://homininhistory.com/blog/evolution-of-human-skin-color Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Human skin colour tracks UV light, balancing folate against vitamin D. How dark skin evolved, why light skin evolved more than once, and what ancient DNA adds. https://homininhistory.com/blog/evolution-of-lactose-tolerance https://homininhistory.com/blog/evolution-of-lactose-tolerance Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Most adults can't digest milk. The mutation that lets some of us do it spread astonishingly fast, and ancient DNA shows it happened later than anyone thought. https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-humans-nearly-go-extinct https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-humans-nearly-go-extinct Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Did a supervolcano cut humans to a few thousand survivors? The Toba hypothesis, the 900,000-year-old bottleneck claim, and what the evidence really shows. https://homininhistory.com/blog/taung-child https://homininhistory.com/blog/taung-child Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 In 1924 a box of quarry rubble reached Raymond Dart. Inside was the Taung Child, the first Australopithecus. Why experts rejected it, and how an eagle killed it. https://homininhistory.com/blog/piltdown-man-hoax https://homininhistory.com/blog/piltdown-man-hoax Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Piltdown Man was a medieval human skull and an orangutan jaw, stained and filed to look ancient. How the hoax fooled science for 40 years, and who did it. https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-neanderthals-bury-their-dead https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-neanderthals-bury-their-dead Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 From La Chapelle-aux-Saints to the Shanidar flower burial, the evidence that Neanderthals buried their dead — and the arguments against it. https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-ancient-dna-works https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-ancient-dna-works Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How do scientists get DNA from a 400,000-year-old bone? Damage patterns, petrous bones, clean rooms and cave dirt — the science of ancient DNA explained. https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-are-human-brains-so-big https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-are-human-brains-so-big Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Our brains tripled in size in two million years and burn a fifth of our energy. Cooking, social groups and cheaper guts — the theories, weighed. https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-did-humans-reach-australia https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-did-humans-reach-australia Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Humans reached Australia at least 50,000 and possibly 65,000 years ago, crossing open sea to Sahul. The archaeology, the genetics and the debate. https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-did-humans-reach-the-americas https://homininhistory.com/blog/when-did-humans-reach-the-americas Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Footprints at White Sands push human arrival in the Americas back to 23,000 years ago. How the Clovis-first model collapsed, and what replaced it. https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-many-human-species-were-there https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-many-human-species-were-there Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 At least 21 hominin species have been named, and several coexisted. Here is the full list, when each lived, and why being the only one left is unusual. https://homininhistory.com/blog/dragon-man-homo-longi https://homininhistory.com/blog/dragon-man-homo-longi Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hidden in a Chinese well for 85 years, the Harbin cranium was named Homo longi in 2021. In 2025, DNA from its dental calculus identified it as Denisovan. https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-luzonensis https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-luzonensis Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo luzonensis, named in 2019 from Callao Cave on Luzon, mixes modern teeth with australopith-like curved toes. Who were they, and how did they get there? https://homininhistory.com/blog/lucy-australopithecus-afarensis https://homininhistory.com/blog/lucy-australopithecus-afarensis Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton from Ethiopia, proved we walked upright before our brains grew. Her full story. https://homininhistory.com/blog/the-first-cannibals-cannibalism-human-evolution https://homininhistory.com/blog/the-first-cannibals-cannibalism-human-evolution Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Cannibalism in human evolution goes back at least 850,000 years. Cut-marked bones from Kenya, Spain, France and England show who ate whom, and possibly why. https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-neanderthals-have-red-hair https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-neanderthals-have-red-hair Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Did Neanderthals have red hair? A pigment gene from El Sidrón and Monti Lessini says some did, but via a variant unlike ours. Here is what the DNA can show. https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-do-humans-have-chins https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-do-humans-have-chins Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Why do humans have chins? No other primate, not even Neanderthals, has one. Chewing, speech, sexual selection and a new spandrel study: what the evidence says. https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-did-humans-lose-body-hair https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-did-humans-lose-body-hair Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How did humans lose their body hair? Sweat glands, pigment genes and the family trees of lice point to heat, endurance and a date over a million years ago. https://homininhistory.com/blog/worlds-oldest-cave-art https://homininhistory.com/blog/worlds-oldest-cave-art Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The world's oldest cave art is a hand stencil on Muna, Indonesia, at least 67,800 years old. How it was dated, and whether Neanderthals painted first in Spain. https://homininhistory.com/blog/what-did-neanderthals-hunt https://homininhistory.com/blog/what-did-neanderthals-hunt Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What did Neanderthals hunt? Bones, isotopes and spear wounds show reindeer, bison, 13-tonne elephants, cave lions and seals. The evidence, site by site. https://homininhistory.com/blog/animals-homo-erectus-encountered https://homininhistory.com/blog/animals-homo-erectus-encountered Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The animals Homo erectus encountered ranged from sabre-toothed cats and 110 kg hyenas to giant baboons and the 3-metre ape Gigantopithecus, from Kenya to Java. https://homininhistory.com/blog/predators-that-hunted-australopithecus https://homininhistory.com/blog/predators-that-hunted-australopithecus Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Which predators hunted Australopithecus? Talon holes, leopard bites and crocodile tooth marks on fossils show how often our small ancestors ended up as prey. https://homininhistory.com/blog/animals-of-flores-homo-floresiensis https://homininhistory.com/blog/animals-of-flores-homo-floresiensis Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The animals of Flores included pygmy elephants, Komodo dragons, giant rats and a 1.8-metre stork. Meet the island fauna Homo floresiensis lived with and hunted. https://homininhistory.com/blog/cave-bears-and-humans https://homininhistory.com/blog/cave-bears-and-humans Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Cave bears and humans shared Europe's caves for hundreds of thousands of years. Hunting, art, the debunked "bear cult", extinction and surviving bear DNA. https://homininhistory.com/blog/dwarf-elephants-sicily-cyclops https://homininhistory.com/blog/dwarf-elephants-sicily-cyclops Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The dwarf elephants of Sicily stood about a metre tall. Here is how island life shrank them, and why their one-holed skulls may lie behind the Cyclops legend. https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-other-human-species-talk https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-other-human-species-talk Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Could Neanderthals talk? A 60,000-year-old hyoid bone, ears tuned to speech, the FOXP2 gene and complex behaviour all say probably. What the evidence shows. https://homininhistory.com/blog/ice-age-animals-early-humans-encountered https://homininhistory.com/blog/ice-age-animals-early-humans-encountered Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ice age animals early humans encountered — from the mammoths and cave lions Neanderthals and Denisovans knew to the American lion the first Americans faced. https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-do-we-know-what-extinct-humans-ate https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-do-we-know-what-extinct-humans-ate Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How do we know what extinct humans ate? Isotopes, tooth wear, dental tartar, cut marks and fossil faeces each record a different part of ancient diets. https://homininhistory.com/blog/what-makes-us-human https://homininhistory.com/blog/what-makes-us-human Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What makes us human? Explore the biological and behavioural traits — bipedalism, big brains, tools, language and cumulative culture — and when each one evolved. https://homininhistory.com/blog/out-of-africa-theory-explained https://homininhistory.com/blog/out-of-africa-theory-explained Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Out of Africa theory explained: how and when Homo sapiens arose in Africa ~300,000 years ago and spread worldwide, and the fossil and DNA evidence for it. https://homininhistory.com/blog/human-family-tree-explained https://homininhistory.com/blog/human-family-tree-explained Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The human family tree explained: the major hominin genera and species, how they're related, and how scientists reconstruct the tree from fossils and DNA. https://homininhistory.com/blog/human-evolution-timeline https://homininhistory.com/blog/human-evolution-timeline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A clear human evolution timeline from 7 million years ago to today — Sahelanthropus, Lucy, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and the rise of modern Homo sapiens. https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-do-scientists-date-fossils https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-do-scientists-date-fossils Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How do scientists date fossils? A clear guide to radiocarbon, potassium-argon, uranium-series, luminescence, and the methods behind every date on this site. https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-did-neanderthals-go-extinct https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-did-neanderthals-go-extinct Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Neanderthals vanished 40,000 years ago in Europe. Was it competition, climate, small populations, or interbreeding with humans? The science explained. https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-humans-evolve-from-apes https://homininhistory.com/blog/did-humans-evolve-from-apes Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Humans didn't evolve from apes—we ARE apes and share common ancestors with chimps. Learn what science actually says about human evolution and our primate https://homininhistory.com/blog/hominin-vs-hominid https://homininhistory.com/blog/hominin-vs-hominid Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hominin and hominid mean different things in evolutionary biology. Learn the taxonomy, why the terms changed, and which word to use. https://homininhistory.com/blog/human-vs-chimpanzee https://homininhistory.com/blog/human-vs-chimpanzee Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Humans and chimpanzees share 98.8% DNA but evolved in strikingly different directions. Discover what the genetic similarity really means and how we diverged. https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-did-humans-start-walking-upright https://homininhistory.com/blog/why-did-humans-start-walking-upright Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Discover why hominins evolved to walk on two legs millions of years before big brains emerged. Explore fossils, anatomy, and the surprising truths about https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-much-neanderthal-dna-do-you-have https://homininhistory.com/blog/how-much-neanderthal-dna-do-you-have Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Learn what percentage of Neanderthal DNA you carry. Discover how much archaic ancestry is in modern humans and what it actually does. https://homininhistory.com/blog/denisovan-dna-in-modern-humans https://homininhistory.com/blog/denisovan-dna-in-modern-humans Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Discover Denisovan DNA in your genes. Explore where it survives, why Tibetans have altitude superpowers, and what ancient interbreeding reveals about human https://homininhistory.com/blog/sima-de-los-huesos-vs-denisova-cave https://homininhistory.com/blog/sima-de-los-huesos-vs-denisova-cave Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Two caves transformed human evolution science. Sima de los Huesos revealed early Neanderthals; Denisova Cave discovered an entirely new human lineage through https://homininhistory.com/blog/jebel-irhoud-vs-omo-kibish https://homininhistory.com/blog/jebel-irhoud-vs-omo-kibish Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Jebel Irhoud and Omo Kibish hold the oldest Homo sapiens fossils. Discover how these African sites rewrote human origins to 300,000+ years ago. https://homininhistory.com/blog/venus-figurines https://homininhistory.com/blog/venus-figurines Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Venus figurines are small carved figures made by early humans across Ice Age Europe. Discover why they matter to understanding human creativity. https://homininhistory.com/blog/control-of-fire https://homininhistory.com/blog/control-of-fire Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Discover when humans first controlled fire. Explore archaeological evidence from 1.5 million years ago to habitual hearth use. https://homininhistory.com/blog/mitochondrial-eve-vs-y-chromosomal-adam https://homininhistory.com/blog/mitochondrial-eve-vs-y-chromosomal-adam Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Mitochondrial Eve vs Y-chromosomal Adam explained: who they really were, why they never met, and why they were not the first or only humans who ever lived. https://homininhistory.com/blog/stone-knapping-methods https://homininhistory.com/blog/stone-knapping-methods Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Stone knapping methods explained: from hard-hammer percussion to Levallois cores and pressure flaking — how the craft of shaping stone tools evolved over https://homininhistory.com/blog/ice-age-predators-north-carolina https://homininhistory.com/blog/ice-age-predators-north-carolina Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ice Age predators in North Carolina: meet the dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, giant short-faced bears and American lions Paleoindians faced before 9000 BC. https://homininhistory.com/blog/paranthropus-vs-australopithecus https://homininhistory.com/blog/paranthropus-vs-australopithecus Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Paranthropus vs Australopithecus: how the heavy-jawed 'robust' australopiths differ from the lighter 'gracile' ones in skull, diet and evolutionary fate — https://homininhistory.com/blog/lascaux-vs-chauvet https://homininhistory.com/blog/lascaux-vs-chauvet Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Lascaux vs Chauvet: compare France's two most famous painted caves — their age, animals, artistic technique and discovery — and why Chauvet rewrote the story https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-sapiens-vs-neanderthals https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-sapiens-vs-neanderthals Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo sapiens vs Neanderthals: compare brain, skull, body and behaviour of modern humans and our closest extinct cousins — and why only one lineage survived. https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-habilis-vs-homo-erectus https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-habilis-vs-homo-erectus Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo habilis vs Homo erectus: how the small 'handy man' differs from tall, far-travelling erectus in body, brain and tools — and why they were neighbours, https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-erectus-vs-homo-sapiens https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-erectus-vs-homo-sapiens Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo erectus vs Homo sapiens: how the first human with a modern body compares to us in brain, skull, range and technology — and whether erectus was our https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-naledi-burial-behavior https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-naledi-burial-behavior Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Homo naledi burial claim says a small-brained hominin buried its dead some 240,000 years ago. Did it really happen, or are the skeptics right to doubt it? https://homininhistory.com/blog/archaic-vs-modern-homo-sapiens https://homininhistory.com/blog/archaic-vs-modern-homo-sapiens Sat, 09 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Archaic vs anatomically modern Homo sapiens: a 315,000-year-old face, an old-shaped skull, and what the word "modern" really means for our own species. https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-antecessor https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-antecessor Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Discover Homo antecessor, Europe's earliest known human: an 800,000-year-old skull with a surprisingly modern face, the first cannibalism, and a contested past. https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-heidelbergensis-vs-neanderthals https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-heidelbergensis-vs-neanderthals Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo heidelbergensis vs Neanderthals: was heidelbergensis the direct ancestor of the Neanderthals? Compare their brains, tools, and the fossils that link them. https://homininhistory.com/blog/australopithecus-afarensis-vs-africanus https://homininhistory.com/blog/australopithecus-afarensis-vs-africanus Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Australopithecus afarensis vs africanus: how Lucy's East African species differs from South Africa's africanus in skull, teeth, age and family-tree place. https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-floresiensis-vs-homo-erectus https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-floresiensis-vs-homo-erectus Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo floresiensis vs Homo erectus: did the metre-tall 'hobbit' shrink from tall, wide-ranging Homo erectus? Island dwarfism and the Flores fossils explained. https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-naledi-vs-australopithecus https://homininhistory.com/blog/homo-naledi-vs-australopithecus Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homo naledi vs Australopithecus: why a small-brained relative from 300,000 years ago looks two million years out of date — anatomy, dating and the debate. https://homininhistory.com/blog/ardipithecus-vs-australopithecus https://homininhistory.com/blog/ardipithecus-vs-australopithecus Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ardipithecus vs Australopithecus: how Ardi's grasping foot and woodland life differ from Lucy's bipedalism — and what it reveals about upright walking. https://homininhistory.com/blog/neanderthals-vs-denisovans https://homininhistory.com/blog/neanderthals-vs-denisovans Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Neanderthals vs Denisovans compared: their split, fossils, tools, and the interbreeding that still lives in human DNA today. Discover what sets them apart.