A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This ...

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 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

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

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

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 ...

Fossils discovered in Tam Pa Ling cave in Laos suggest that Homo sapiens may have left Africa far earlier than once believed. Dated using luminescence and uranium-series methods, these remains ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

A 3D reconstruction of an ancient Homo erectus skull, known as DAN5, has unveiled primitive features that challenge existing theories about early human evolution.