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 ...

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed ...

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.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

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

The research "introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe ... Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the Homo antecessor. Experts have found ...

Our species Homo sapiens did not appear until ... and this find helps to write a new page in the history of human evolution," Bermúdez de Castro said.