The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.
A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.
The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...
A TRAGIC tale of a savage lion attack on a teenage boy has been revealed by archaeologists – and miraculously, he survived ...
According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...