A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the biological remnants within the human body that provide a fascinating glimpse into our ancient ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is ...

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Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests by at least 150 thousand years ago ...