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

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 ...

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

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 ...

Denisovans were an extinct human group identified almost entirely through DNA rather than complete skeletons. First discovered in Siberia, their genetic legacy is still present in populations across ...

A 3D reconstruction of an ancient Homo erectus skull, known as DAN5, has unveiled primitive features that challenge existing theories about early human evolution.

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

The Netherlands has returned to Indonesia four important exhibits from the collection of Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois.

The Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia, Marc Gerritsen, handed over the objects to Indonesia’s Minister of Culture, Fadli Zon, in the presence of Marcel Beukeboom, the General Director of Naturalis ...

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