Bones From 773,000 Years Ago Capture Human Evolution at a Crossroads In A Nutshell Ancient African fossils dated to around ...

WASHINGTON — In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show. Call it a beach ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

In the Nature Careers and Nature Africa podcast “Science in Africa, Lessons from the Past, Hopes for the Future,” the eminent virologist and past President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, ...

Virologist Oyewale Tomori, whose career in science dates back to the early years of Nigerian independence, offers a personal perspective on the state of African science in 2022. Nigerian virologist ...

Sisanda Nkoala receives funding from the National Research Foundation. The training to undertake this study was funded, in part, by the Institute of Pan African Thought and Conversation at the ...