Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

The human race is even older than we thought, and a new discovery has changed everything we thought we knew about our species’ earliest days walking on Earth. A major discovery analysed in a new paper ...

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

Scientists have adapted cloning technology to create human eggs from skin cells and a donor egg, potentially opening a new ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

Learn more about the reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium, and about what it might mean for the history of three human ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

SHOHAM, Israel (AP) - Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...