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 ...

Scientists reconstructed the fossil of a skull found in Ethiopia, dating back 1.5 million years, and were stunned by what they learned. Digital reconstruction is an area of technology that allows ...

During the Japanese occupation of China in 1933, a man working on a bridge in the city of Harbin in the northeastern part of the country discovered a skull and immediately hid it from his Japanese ...

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.