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

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so ...

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.

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

It was the first of many fossils to reinforce the complex nature of evolution itself — the 'March of Progress' is inaccurate. A better way to think about human evolution is like a 'bushy tree ...

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 ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

However, it wasn’t immediately obvious which species of prehistoric human the team had found, and the study describing the ...