Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

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

Over the following two years, our interdisciplinary and multi-institutional team—with substantial support from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES ...

Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, but gradually ... challenge existing theories on human evolution in Africa. As Professor Chris ...

resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal structure," explained María Martinón, director of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution and the study’s ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ... that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived ...