Eastern Africa’s coastal forests and hominin origins
Join paleobiologist and evolutionary anthropologist René Bobe to learn about Eastern Africa's coastal forests and their role in our evolution.
New Species of Early Human Discovered in the Philippines
A new member of the human family has been found in a cave in the Philippines, researchers report today in the journal Nature. The new species, called Homo luzonensis is named after Luzon Island, where the more than 50,000-year-old fossils were found during excavations at Callao Cave.
The Origins of Us
The question of where we humans come from is one many people ask, and the answer is getting more complicated as new evidence is emerging all the time.