A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting South Africa.The Sterkfontein Caves yielded numerous fossil discoveries ...

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The diversity within these fossils reflects the complexity of human evolution in eastern Asia, where interbreeding and migration likely played significant roles. The Juluren’s distinct features ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Now a pioneering paleoanthropologist at ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

The fossils, which date back more than 7 million ... Mashable The teams were led by Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Germany and Nikolai ...

Professor Chris Stringer, a human evolution expert who was not involved in the research, has called the discovery “an important result”. “This fossil supports the idea that the morphologically similar ...

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that contributed some genetic material to Indigenous Australians and people living ...