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 ...

Humans Developed Language Capabilities 135,000 Yrs Ago, Researchers Stunned to Find Similarities in 7,000 Languages It is ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

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

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but ...

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

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.

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.