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

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus and Paranthropus ... t capture real-time behavior.

The alternative view is that the capacity for modern human behavior is coincident with the origins of Homo sapiens, and that the expression of this capacity in the archaeological record was an ...

Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

leading scientists to classify them as a subspecies known as Homo erectus georgicus. The Dmanisi skulls are significant because they challenge previous ideas about early human classification.

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 ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...