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

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

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.

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, descending from a single ancestral lineage. However, recent ...

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 ...

When did human language begin? It’s a deep question about our past. A new study suggests that humans had the ability to use ...

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

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

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

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

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