Understanding these issues remains forever relevant, even millions of years after the evolution of humankind. "Planet Africa" runs until April 27, 2025 at the James Simon Gallery in Berlin.

For two and a half years, the "Cradle of Humankind" has been closed. Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting ...

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind ...

Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"? It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize ...

His father was part of the team that uncovered South Africa's most famous find, a skeleton dubbed "Little Foot", in the caves. Deriving its name from the size of the bones first discovered in the ...

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...

Malawi could be the cradle of humankind By Reuters October 23, 20099:47 AM PDTUpdated October 23, 2009 ...

Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa's Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans -- a ...