Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution, there’s ...

The skull of the Taung Child. Bernhard Zipfel/© University of the Witwatersrand, Author provided (no reuse) In the century since the Taung Child was found and described, a great debate has developed ...