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

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

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 ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Discovered in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany, Homo heidelbergensis bridged the gap between Homo erectus and both Neanderthals and modern humans. This powerful species spread across Africa and Europe, ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to nearly half a ...