The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

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 ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

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 finds in Java shed light on the last known population of Homo erectus, one of humanity’s most resilient ancestors. These remains mark the species’ final stand before extinction—and offer ...

A fossilized foot uncovered in northeastern Ethiopia has led scientists to identify a previously unknown human relative that lived about 3.4 million years ago. The discovery, detailed in the journal ...