The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This ...

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 ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

EU-backed crackdown in Mauritania halts migrant boats to Spain, leaving thousands like Diallo stranded and sparking rights ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

CENIEH is part of an international team that has presented a virtual reconstruction of a 1.5-million-year-old fossil face recovered at the site of ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Fossils discovered in Tam Pa Ling cave in Laos suggest that Homo sapiens may have left Africa far earlier than once believed. Dated using luminescence and uranium-series methods, these remains ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...