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 ...

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

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

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

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

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

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

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 ...