A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from Drimolen adds an adult to the earliest Homo erectus record, when another hominin outnumbered it 10 to 1.

As waves of humans left Africa tens of thousands of years ago, eventually populating the entire planet, they were joined on ...

More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, ...

Five partial skeletons discovered at France’s Cro-Magnon rock shelter in 1868 gave their name to a supposed human group, but ...

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Scientists have digitally reconstructed the facial appearance of a Homo sapiens representative who lived approximately ...

New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

An adult skull fragment from the Drimolen cave confirms Homo erectus lived in South Africa 2 million years ago, about 200,000 ...

Armed with strategy, language, and fire, Homo sapiens pushed into every corner of the world. Rivals vanished—only they ...

Plenty of people hate the Out of Africa theory because it demonstrates we are one people, with far more in common than our ...

It has now been identified as the oldest adult Homo erectus specimen found in Africa. Catalogued as DNH 127, the fragment ...

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