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

That range spans three different human ancestors: Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and early Homo sapiens. “This is possibly the first evidence of the use of natural shapes for varied activities,” ...

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

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known ... In the mid-1990s, scientists identified an early human relative known as Homo antecessor from about 80 fossils ...

Homo heidelbergensis, shares features with both modern humans and our homo erectus ancestors. The early human species had a very large browridge, and a larger braincase and flatter face than ...

Paleoarcheologists previously matched a set of roughly 850,000-year-old fossils in Spain to Homo antecessor, an early human subspecies ... resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

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

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...