Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

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

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human evolution, says Trevor Cousins.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Homo sapiens descended from two ancestral groups, not one. This complex origin story ...

THE DISCOVERY A small excavation, just two square meters. And from the deepest layers, prehistoric human bones began to ...

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.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...