From ancient hybrid humans to older-than-expected fossils, 2021 delivered several discoveries that reshaped the human evolutionary timeline. These findings challenged long-held assumptions about ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...