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

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

With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

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

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

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.

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Borja, Spain’s Ecce Homo, a famously botched restoration of a painting of Christ by an octogenarian, has held the crown of ...