A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

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

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.

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

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in Africa.

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools in China that could rewrite our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The ...

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