A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

A new study from Cambridge genetic researchers is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage — a discovery ...

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

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

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and extinct hominin species.

Beyond human evolution, the researchers applied their computational ... Fossil evidence indicates that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa and other regions during ...

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