A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

In a major archaeological discovery, researchers have found the world's oldest bone tools in Tanzania, providing new insights ...

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 bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in Europe.