Long before the rise of the Homo sapiens civilization, our ancestors walked the valleys of East Africa over a million years ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Fragments of human facial bones that surfaced in northern ... in the area 800,000 to 900,000 years ago—and closer to Homo erectus. Similarities between Pink and Homo erectus prompted scientists ...