After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin, right, ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

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 ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday.