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

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

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

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

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

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

Yet despite this growing interest in consciousness, the million-dollar question remains: does the stoned ape theory have any ...

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.