The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

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Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

A composite skeleton and an array of other bones belonging to multiple members of a previously unknown hominin species(Courtesy John Hawks/Wits University) When ...

Excavations at Jebel Irhoud, near Morocco’s west coast, have uncovered the 300,000-year-old bones of some of the earliest members of the Homo sapiens lineage. Human bones were first discovered at the ...

Barclay’s ordinary life becomes a world of terror when an ancient species rises from the sea. As UNIT fights for control, the summit on the Thames reveals ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone ...

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