For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

Scientists argue ape-like Sahelanthropus tchadensis that lived in Africa 7m years ago is best contender but more fossils are needed ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

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 ...

Finger bone fossil reveals the complex human migrations out of Africa during a time when Saudi Arabia was wet grassland. The team was led by Michael Petraglia at the Max Plank Institute for Science of ...

A 1.8 million-year-old jaw has been discovered in Orozmani, Georgia, reigniting research into the very first humans to leave Africa. This bone fragment could represent one of the oldest traces of Homo ...

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...

Humans in the Near East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa were interacting in the Stone Age, DNA from 15,000-year-old skeletons shows. The excavated cemetery is ...

An exhibit of the largest collection of fossils of close human relatives ever to go on public display opened on Thursday in South Africa, not far from the caves where they were unearthed.Launched on ...