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

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

CULIACAN, Mexico—Before dawn, an elementary school principal in the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state checks various chats on his phone for word of shootouts or other incidents. If there’s danger, he ...

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

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 ...

A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

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.

(that’s us) did not descend from a neat, single lineage. Instead, modern humans can link their heritage back to at least two ...

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