A partial skull found in South Africa suggests Homo erectus—an ancestral human species—appeared 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. The new ...

An ape skull found in Turkey may challenge the belief that human and ape ancestors came from Africa. The discovery suggests that hominins may have first evolved in Europe.

Anthropologists have found a tiny bone fragment from a child who died in Africa 1.5 million years ago. Its significance: Chemical analysis suggests the child was already eating meat. Hunting was ...

A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull offers evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several, as believed.

This skull provides critical corroboration of genetic evidence indicating that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa and migrated about this time to colonize the Old World.

Hershkovitz and his colleagues said the skull fragment may well be the missing piece of a larger puzzle that shows how Neanderthals and modern humans may have mixed their genes.