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

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

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

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

A small minority that produces this technology and collects all human data treats humanity as "experimental subjects." In ...

A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to ...

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

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

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.

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

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...