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

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

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...

A cast of the skull of Homo floresiensis, one of the hominin species analyzed in the latest study. Credit: The Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Perched from atop our ivory tower, it’s ...

Archaeological breakthrough at Canterbury reveals Homo heidelbergensis survived the brutal Anglian glaciation, rewriting assumptions about early human resilience and adaptation in prehistoric Europe.

Recent fossil evidence challenges the prevailing narrative of human evolution, shifting the focus from Africa to Europe's westernmost reaches. Conventional beliefs, rooted in the Out of Africa theory, ...

A skull from Petralona Cave in northern Greece now has a firm timeline. By measuring a crust that formed directly on the bone, researchers show it is at least 286 ± 9 thousand years old, likely near ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

A groundbreaking study has redefined the significance of one of Europe’s most important human fossils—the Petralona cranium—first unearthed in northern Greece more than 60 years ago. Using advanced ...