The work of archeologists involves a daunting task: to determine the places and ways in which our ancient human ancestors lived based on an extremely limited amount of information. While historians ...

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Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, palaeoanthropology and its related fields ...

Learn more about the handful of tooth fossils that complicate the history of humans in northeastern Ethiopia. Nestled between the Ledi and Geraru rivers in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, the Ledi-Geraru ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one of ...