Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the slender-faced Homo antecessor, dating back around 850,000 ...

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 ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Chinese author and business leader Wang Jing predicted the emergence of a "cosmic civilization" during a speech at the ...

[Photo by Ignacio de la Torre et al / CC BY ... This new research provides fresh insight into the complex evolution of human technology and also of human cognitive development.

"However, some of the genes from the population which contributed a minority of our genetic material, particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden chapter in human evolution, showing our origins trace back to the interbreeding of two distinct species about 300,000 years ago. By analysing modern human DNA, ...

The researchers involved with the new study didn’t need to rely on elusive ancient remains to establish this revised chapter of human history. Instead, they tapped into modern human DNA from the 1000 ...

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

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 ...