While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Q: If the little people of Flores were still alive ... or more like those of Homo erectus? It might seem surprising that Homo floresiensis was making such sophisticated stone tools, given that ...

But Wu and Bae have taken a closer look, and they say the features of some fossils found in China cannot be easily assigned ...

Researchers Identify a Prehistoric Human Species That Came Before Us ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

After reinvestigating a site in modern-day Côte d’Ivoire, an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as 150,000 years ago—tens ...

Basically all of humanity is descended from people who left Africa and mixed with Neanderthals—but when? A study of a handful of very old bones revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were ...

A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Technology breakthrough is earlier than previously thought Researchers suspect tool maker was species Homo erectus The 27 tools ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?