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

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

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

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...