Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

American researchers have reignited the debate over the concept by publishing an article that questions the idea of a new ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and ...

Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from ...

The skeleton, belonging to a five-year-old child found 90 years ago in Israel’s Skhul Cave, dates back about 140,000 years. Researchers say the discovery is the first physical proof that the two ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed ...

It was the telegram exchange that sparked an identity crisis for humankind. In 1960 a young Jane Goodall working in a remote ...

Eventually, the villager spotted something unexpected—the nearly complete cranium of an unknown, ancient hominin protruding from a small chamber’s interior wall. Although covered in calcite and ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

Shamahi, host of NOVA's ambitious five-part series, Human, which captures Homo Sapiens' 300,000 year journey from underdog to ...