The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the ...

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

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

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

"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 ...

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

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

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.

Borja, Spain’s Ecce Homo, a famously botched restoration of a painting of Christ by an octogenarian, has held the crown of ...