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 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.

Fragments of a fossilized face found at Sima del Elefante in northern Spain represent the oldest known human remains in ...

Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...

Researchers at the Hexian hominid site in He county, Ma'anshan City, East China's Anhui Province, have recently made a major archaeological breakthrough with the discovery of two new Homo erectus ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

Researchers say the remains are “a mosaic of primitive and derived traits never seen before.” Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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