Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

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

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

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...