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

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has been hazy. Now a team from the University of ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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. Modern humans descended ...

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

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...