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.

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

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

Genome-level research suggests early Homo sapiens may have begun using language around 135,000 years ago. While all human ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

While Silicon Valley dreams of sleek, uniform progress, India opts for a patchwork quilt stitched together with hope, ...

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

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

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

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

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The ...

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