Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East Africa, then spread south later. It’s clean, familiar, and easy to repeat.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Ancient human genomes reconstructed from remains at a southern African rock shelter show remarkable genetic continuity over time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Introduction. Rethinking the human revolution: Eurasian and African perspectives / Paul Mellars -- pt. 1. Biological and demographic perspectives on modern human origins. The origin and dispersal of ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

ANTHMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. "Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent--and perhaps the most important--phase of human evolution: ...

At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable ...