The (un)lucky fossil, now known as Kabwe 1, represents a turning point at a time when Africa was considered peripheral to the story of human evolution. A century later, it’s widely accepted that the ...
In February 1925, Nature published 1 a paper by Raymond Dart, an anthropologist who spent most of his working life describing the first hominin fossil to have been found, Australopithecus Africanus — ...
The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...
People don’t believe it when I mention how much I loved labor and delivery. They think I’m talking about my career as a nurse-midwife helping others, not my own experiences. They’re partially right—I ...
"Who are we and where do we come from?" This quintessential question has intrigued humanity for millennia. Currently, the "Out-of-Africa (OOA) theory" is prevailingly accepted regarding the origin of ...
Crucially, pregnancy and childbirth complications are among the leading causes of deaths of adolescent girls globally. According to WHO estimates, each year, adolescent girls have 21 million ...
New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,000 years ago. Scientists discovered that before this successful ...