Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...

TORONTO, ON (Canada) - The common lineage of great apes and humans split several hundred thousand earlier than hitherto assumed, according to an international research team headed by Professor ...

A recent article published in the scientific journal PLOS One, “Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe” (Fuss, Spassov, Begun, and Bohme, 22 May 2017), presents ...

Two controversial new studies featured this week in the journal PLOS ONE have sparked an exciting debate among archaeologists regarding humanity's true origin and who is in fact our oldest ancestor.

A study published Monday suggests that early human ancestors diverged from chimpanzees in Europe — not Africa, as previously believed — in a discovery that challenges the mainstream narrative of where ...

Jaw fossils found in northern Greece have been cited in claims that human evolution began in Europe rather than Africa. This ...

Africa is not the cradle of humankind: that’s the claim by a group of scientists who’ve just published what they describe as evidence of pre-human remains found in Eastern Europe (Greece and Bulgaria) ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --Researchers have found 5.7 million-year-old, human-like footprints in Crete, complicating the story of human evolution. A significant body of paleontological evidence suggests early ...

Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...