The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Human babies are born with in-built instincts. These are called primitive reflexes. Don't forget to turn subtitles on.

Professor Jorge A. Colombo highlights how primal survival drives such as dominance and tribal instincts continue to shape human behaviour and societal structures. He argues that understanding ...

However, the human species also had to contend with the notion of mortality, and so in our core neural circuits (mainly in the basal brain) survive our basal drives (reproductive, territorial ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.