Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

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

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

What does that overlap mean for the linear view of human evolution? It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1. ... fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ... that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived ...

resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal structure,” explained María Martinón-Torres, director of Spain’s National Research Center on Human Evolution ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

But research published in the journal Nature "introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe ... some similarities to the face of Homo erectus -- but not enough that the ...

Our species Homo sapiens did not appear until roughly 300,000 years ago in Africa, later migrating worldwide, including into Europe. Homo erectus first appeared in Africa roughly 1.9 million years ...

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 ... Council (CSIC), represents a key milestone in the study of human evolution on the ...