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

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 ...

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

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

The Hungarian writer delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in his own language at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 7.

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

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

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

“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 ...