Human history is often marked by unexpected feats of exploration that challenge long-held assumptions about our ancestors. Some of those ancestors were far more adventurous than they have been given ...

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 ...

A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside ...