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

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

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

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.

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 million years ago (top) until the modern-day (bottom). For the study, the team used data from the ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...