Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

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

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. One of the things I try to do in Our Human Story is answer ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.