Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

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.

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The bone remains, including parts of the left cheek and upper jaw, belong to an extinct human species that lived between 1.1 ...

Scientists have revealed the discovery of the earliest face in western Europe offers "fascinating" insight into the evolution ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The Sima del Elefante site, in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain), has once again been the scene of an extraordinary discovery. A team of researchers has identified a human facial fragment dated ...