Study sheds new light on unrecognised but important crossroad for biogeographic exchange between Africa and Eurasia.
Homo erectus thrived in hyper-arid landscapes one million years ago.
Discovery of rare early human fossils from Indonesia further unravels mystery of 'Hobbits'.
Discovery of stone tools and cut-marked animal bones in Kenya offers window into the dawn of stone technology.
Findings indicate the desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for early hominin dispersals into Eurasia.
Fossilised teeth of ancient mammals from a 17-million-year-old Kenyan site reveals climate variability.
Increasing climate variability has been implicated as a driving force for the origins of our species (Homo sapiens) over 300,000 years ago,...
The takeover of Southeast Asia’s grasslands with today’s rainforests contributed to the extinction of the region’s megafauna and ancient humans.
Griffith researchers contributed to a new isotopic study of fossil teeth that shows the first direct evidence that human success...
Three-million-year-old brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy” and the “Dikika child’’ from Ethiopia) shed new light on the evolution of brain growth.
