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

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

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

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

So who were our mysterious human ancestors? Fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in Africa and other regions during this period ...

shares features with both modern humans and our homo erectus ancestors. The early human species had a very large browridge, and a larger braincase and flatter face than older early human species.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

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

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 ...

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.