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.
La reconstrucción digital del rostro fósil de un Homo erectus que vivió hace entre 1,5 y 1,6 millones de años en Gona, ...
In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...
Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human relative dating to 1.52 million years ago, revealing that this species would ...
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 ...
“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...
New fossil evidence from China points to a possible new branch of humanity—Homo juluensis. Combining primitive traits with surprisingly modern features, this species could bridge the gap between Homo ...
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