A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

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Analysis - New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who ...

Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity and the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa represent some of the oldest known genetic lineages. They can therefore reveal more about where and when we ...

When a partial fossil foot emerged from Ethiopia’s ancient sediments, it carried a quiet but profound implication: Lucy, the ...

Air pollution poses the single largest external threat to human life expectancy, cutting years off lives in India and ...

COP-30, being held at Belem, offered an opportunity to accelerate dialogues around climate action through south-south ...

South Africa’s pursuit of a just energy transition faces two critical risks: deliberate obstruction by fossil fuel companies and aligned politicians, and the replication of existing inequities if the ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...