What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

These fossils may be the best candidate for 'African populations lying near the root of this shared ancestry.' ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...