Fossil and genetic evidence indicates our immediate human ancestors evolved in Africa beginning about two million years ago ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree Erin Wayman The Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Initiative ...

WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans.

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...