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 ...

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

A virtual reconstruction of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus skull from Ethiopia uncovers primitive facial features and ...

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

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

Denisovans were an extinct human group identified almost entirely through DNA rather than complete skeletons. First discovered in Siberia, their genetic legacy is still present in populations across ...

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

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 ...

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

Instinctively, we stand exactly where we started, in a land before time . When the Mammoths Are on the Move: Homo Erectus may ...