The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

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Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity. The fossils, which include teeth that date to between 2.8 million and 2.6 million years ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

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Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...