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KROMDRAAI, South Africa (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled the first evidence on Tuesday that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to ...

The fossil hands of Australopithecus sediba (around two million years old) and Homo naledi (around 250,000 years old) show that these South African hominins may have had different levels of dexterity, ...

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil sites for understanding human origins during a presentation Tuesday in ...

Paleoanthropologists have once again sparked a debate after suggesting that a long-extinct human relative may have buried its dead more than 120,000 years before modern humans started funerary ...

The fossil hands of Australopithecus sediba (around two million years old) and Homo naledi (around 250,000 years old) show that these South African hominins may have had different levels of dexterity, ...

Berger, a paleoanthropologist at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, reports on his nearly three decades of work in South Africa—with an excursion to the Micronesian island of Palau—and ...

CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, South Africa (Reuters) - Humanity's claim to uniqueness just suffered another setback: scientists reported on Thursday that a newly discovered ancient species related to humans ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...