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 ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

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

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...