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 ...

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

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...