A fascinating new discovery has emerged from Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru Research Area, where researchers uncovered fossilized teeth that challenge our understanding of early human evolution. According to ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live and when groups stayed apart. By tracing ancient mosquito habitats, ...

In a limestone cave on Muna Island in southeastern Indonesia, a faint set of markings on stone has shifted quietly through ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

A fossil discovery in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human evolution. Scientists found a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...