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 ...

Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed "Pink" discovered in Spain are from a potential ...

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

Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

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