Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

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

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

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

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

OUR ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human ...

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

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.