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.

(that’s us) did not descend from a neat, single lineage. Instead, modern humans can link their heritage back to at least two ...

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

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

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Homo sapiens descended from two ancestral groups, not one. This complex origin story ...

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

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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

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