The Hofmeyr Skull. Scientists have now dated the skull as being 36,000 years old. The great similarity of this skull to skulls of the same age from Eurasian finds confirms the "Out of ...

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Characteristics of the fossil, the most complete extinct ape skull ever found, mark it as a new species in the great flowering of ape evolution, which later led to the emergence of humans.

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor _ a remarkably intact skull of a previously ...

A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull offers evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several, as believed.

A two million-year-old flat-faced skull pulled from the sandstones of East Africa has shored up claims that at least three species of early humans once co-existed in an “evolutionary experiment ...

In 1921 at Broken Hill in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, miners unearthed a skull that would, at last, provide hard evidence that Darwin was right to suggest human beings evolved out of Africa.

The skull, nicknamed "Toumai", dates back six or seven million years to a period in human evolution about which almost nothing is kn Oldest human skull discovered in Africa Home Page ...