Humans and chimpanzees split from their last common ancestor several hundred thousand years earlier than believed – and this occurred in Europe, not Africa – according to an international team of ...

Modern man may have originated in the eastern Mediterranean not Africa according to scientists following the discovery of a 7.2 million year old tooth. For the last century scientists have assumed ...

The birthplace of modern man may have been the eastern Mediterranean, rather than Africa, according to scientists studying newly discovered ancient fossils of a tooth and lower jawbone. The remnants, ...

EXPERTS have long believed human lineage split from apes some seven million years ago in Africa, but a recent discovery is set to change this. Scientists have traced the first hominid species to ...

A fossilized tooth belonging to an ape-like creature that roamed Bulgaria 7.2 million years ago could rewrite history as we know it. Scientists say the species, which is known only from a lower ...

MODERN man may have originated in the eastern Mediterranean not Africa according to scientists following the discovery of a 7.2 million year old tooth. For the last century scientists have assumed ...

A new discovery suggests that Mediterranean Europe rather than Africa may be the 'cradle of humanity' - where humans evolved from their ape ancestors. The birthplace of the human race may be ...

CHIRPAN, Bulgaria (Reuters) - A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature which may be the oldest-known direct ancestor of man and whose discovery has ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. London: The history of human evolution may be rewritten after scientists claimed that the birth of mankind happened in Europe, not ...

A jawbone discovered by German troops in Athens during the Second World War could be evidence that apes and humans diverged 200,000 years earlier than the current theory says. Chimpanzees and bonobos ...