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

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

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

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

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

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.

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...