Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in ...

Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests. Scientists investigated fossils excavated from the medieval ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

This year’s mayoral race saw the highest early in-person turnout ever for a nonpresidential election in New York. By Alex Lemonides and Ashley Ahn More than 735,000 New Yorkers cast early ballots ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? If H. habilis really had begun the shift towards eating meat, they argue, the only ...