Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

The return of the Dubois Collection from the Netherlands places Indonesia at the heart of human evolution studies, opening ...

Scientists believe they have uncovered the 'missing link' in human evolution, showing how our species may have evolved.

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Newly discovered fossils in Casablanca, Morocco, could unlock crucial insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens. Dated to ...

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that ...

Understanding the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans has relied for decades on morphological, genetic, and archaeological analyses from numerous European and African ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Fossils of archaic humans found in a cave in Casablanca are helping to fill a gap in the history of humanity's evolutionary ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...