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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Fragments of a fossilized face found at Sima del Elefante in northern Spain represent the oldest known human remains in Western Europe. Dated to around 1.4 million years ago, the discovery does not ...

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

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

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

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...