A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

Without knowing what they’d found or who to ask about it, the Colemans initially decided to keep the fossil a secret. For ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

Fossils found in Israel’s Nesher Ramla quarry, dated to 140,000–120,000 years ago, belonged to a new group of hominins. With ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...