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

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists first discovered the cave in 1940 ... or if they came up with new practices together. "Neanderthals' and Homo ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...