The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

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

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

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.

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools in China that could rewrite our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...