The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...
That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...
A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.
The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...
A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.