Helena Malmström, Researcher at Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, sampling at the Florisbad research station using the mobile clean lab. In southern Africa, a group of people lived ...

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 ...

For a long time, East Africa has been considered the birthplace of human beings. But a new study is challenging this theory, and has the potential to change all that we have been taught so far. New ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa. Few early human fossils are as ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct. Yet how and when Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africa's crust is thinning beneath Turkana, where tectonic change may also explain the region's remarkable human fossil record.