Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ancient remains belong to is far from settled. Dated to around 1.85 million ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million years ago. However, a recent study of fossilized teeth from the Dmanisi site ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...