A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago.

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests. Scientists investigated fossils excavated from the medieval ...