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

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 fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

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

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 ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

A TRAGIC tale of a savage lion attack on a teenage boy has been revealed by archaeologists – and miraculously, he survived ...

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

The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.