Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about our ancient past: modern humans didn’t come from just one ancestral group, ...

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

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

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

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

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

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

However, these latest results, reported in the journal Nature Genetics, suggest a more complex story ... may have played a ...

NL: In my research laboratory, I study the evolution of the human genome and some of our unique genes that ... but the people ...