The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

erectus – which emerged in Africa some 1.9 million years ago before ... It has also been suggested that the Dmanisi hominids ...

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

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

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

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

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

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.

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