Scientists discovered ancient facial fossils in Spain that may represent a new human species, reshaping early European ...

“This paper introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution in Europe, Homo affinis erectus,” said study co-author Rosa Huguet, a paleoanthropologist at the Institut Català de ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

Scientists from the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) and other national and international institutions ... In particular, the nasal structure of ATE7-1 is flatter and less ...

Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed "Pink" discovered in Spain are from a potential ...

Some of the eldest bones ever discovered could reconstruct our understanding of mankind's history – the find 'introduces a ...

Neanderthals and Denisovans eventually branched off from this lineage. DNA analysis suggests that when Population A and Population B mixed again 300,000 years ago, genetic material from Population B ...

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

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

antecessor, whose face was flat and vertical, similar to that of modern humans. Instead, the structure was more robust and projected outward, resembling the much older Homo erectus species. “This ...

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.

co-director of the Atapuerca Project focused on human evolution. Little is known about Europe's earliest human residents. There are fossils commonly attributed to Homo erectus dating to 1.8 ...