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

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal ...

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...

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

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

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

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.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...