A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

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

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

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

Explore the origins of human language and its capacity dating back at least 135,000 years, reshaping how we interact.

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

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear.

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 ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and ...