James Kidder

In 2015, a huge cache of human fossils was discovered in South Africa that raised some important and difficult questions within the scientific community.

Working at the open-air site of Linjing, China, palaeoanthropologists discovered what would turn out to be one of the most exciting East Asian human fossil finds in recent memory.

A new discovery in a Chinese cave throws new light on how (and when) modern humans first spread to Asia.

One of the most important fossils in the study of human origins is Ardipithecus ramidus, a fossil pre-human discovered in 1994, in what was once a forest in the Aramis region of northern Ethiopia.

The recently discovered portion of a human jaw has been dated to 177,000 years old. This strongly suggests that our species is older than we previously believed.

Fossilized footprints in Greece add a new twist to the story of human evolution.

In 2015, a huge cache of human fossils was discovered in South Africa that raised some important and difficult questions within the scientific community.

Working at the open-air site of Linjing, China, palaeoanthropologists discovered what would turn out to be one of the most exciting East Asian human fossil finds in recent memory.

A new discovery in a Chinese cave throws new light on how (and when) modern humans first spread to Asia.