Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around 300,000 years ago, were capable of living sustainably in such inhospitable regions. The first hominins to have split ...

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

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

While species like Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, and Homo neanderthalensis have long dominated evolutionary theory, Homo juluensis presents new questions about the diversity and interaction of ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

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

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

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...