Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced ...

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Take a tour through seven million years of human evolution and explore the origin of Homo sapiens.

What’s most distinctive about humans as a species, viewed collectively in human history? Penelope J. Corfield from the Royal ...

Our species’ origins story comes from North Africa, to be exact, the country of Morocco. When the researchers first came ...

On the origin of our species Peer-Reviewed Publication Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology image: This cranium from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco is often called a modern human ancestor.

The fossils, attributed to an unknown australopithecus that lived in present-day Ethiopia 2.6 million years ago, have met with skepticism from other experts ...

On the origin of our species Date: February 10, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Summary: New research suggests that genetic and fossil records will not reveal a ...

Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance Paper challenges the claim that the genus Homo originated in response to environmental changes Date: August 4, 2017 Source: George Washington ...

The oldest known bones of our species, dating back around 300,000 years, have been discovered in a cave in Morocco. However, subsequent research cast doubts on whether those fossils were 40,000 ...

Our understanding of human history has been thoroughly upended by a number of discoveries over the past few years. There's less certainty now about how long ago we evolved, when humans spread ...