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Fossil Hotspot Bias: Are We Missing the Full Story of Human Evolution?


New research reveals that discrepancies between the locations where fossils are found and the areas where early humans are thought to have resided could affect our comprehension of human evolutionary history. A significant portion of the early human fossil record comes from a few key locations in

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