Statistical Study Finds It Unlikely That South African Fossil Species Is Ancestral To Humans

Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million-year-old, apelike fossil from South …

Ancient Teeth Hint At Mysterious Human Relative

Four teeth found in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads. In 1972 …

Scientists Confirm Pair Of Very Different Skeletons Are The Same Earliest Hominin Species

Separate skeletons suggested to be from different early hominin species are, in fact, from the same species, a team of …

Tools Found In Shangchen, China Prove Ancient Peoples Left Africa MUCH Earlier Than Previously Thought

Modern humans’ distant relatives left Africa earlier than previously thought—rewriting a key chapter in humankind’s epic prequel, according to a …

Skulls Found Could Rewrite Human History

Precisely when and where did our species emerge? Anthropologists have struggled with that question for decades, and scattered clues had …