"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “The Azmaka hominin represents a candidate for the ancestral form of positional behavior from which ...

Europe, not Africa, might have spawned the first members of the human evolutionary family around 7 million years ago, researchers say. Armed with only jaw and tooth fossils, the investigators don’t ...

For decades, scientists have believed that the story of human origins began in Africa. That idea has shaped textbooks, documentaries, and research for generations. But a growing body of fossil ...

Controversial new research suggests that modern humans evolved from apes in the Eastern Mediterranean — not from ancestors in Africa, as long believed by the majority of scientists. The researchers' ...

An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen, has discovered a 7.2 million-year-old Graecopithecus femur in Bulgaria An international ...

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern ...

Two controversial new studies featured this week in the journal PLOS ONE have sparked an exciting debate among archaeologists regarding humanity's true origin and who is in fact our oldest ancestor.