"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." "The Azmaka hominin represents a candidate for the ancestral form of positional behavior from which ...

Europe, not Africa, might have spawned the first members of the human evolutionary family around 7 million years ago, researchers say. Armed with only jaw and tooth fossils, the investigators don’t ...

Controversial new research suggests that modern humans evolved from apes in the Eastern Mediterranean — not from ancestors in Africa, as long believed by the majority of scientists. The researchers' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lower jaw of the 7.175 million year old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos Vassilissis, Greece is shown in this ...

An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen, has discovered a 7.2 million-year-old Graecopithecus femur in Bulgaria An international ...