Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.
The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This ...
The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...
A TRAGIC tale of a savage lion attack on a teenage boy has been revealed by archaeologists – and miraculously, he survived ...
According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...
That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...
The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...
A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...