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.

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

"The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries," said first author Dr. Trevor ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins.

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

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

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

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

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

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