An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution.

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Lauren Schroeder studies the processes that have driven human evolution. She has a tattoo of her favorite fossil, a 2-million-year-old Homo habilis skull.. Blake Eligh/University of Toronto ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...