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.
A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.
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 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.
Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.
That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...
A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...
New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
Albrecht, J., Bocherens, H., Hobson, K.A. […] & Selva, N. (2025) Dynamic omnivory shapes the functional role of large carnivores under global change. Nature Communications 16:10896. https://doi.org/10 ...
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