This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Researchers of this study conducted uranium-based dating, which revealed that Homo juluensis lived sometime between 140,000 ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

A recent climate study from the University of Wollongong suggests that Homo floresiensis, the small early human species from ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...