A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

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

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ancestors adapt and evolve while Neanderthals went extinct.

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The ...

Neanderthals bred with our human ancestors 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Experts have discovered that a five–year–old child who lived 140,000 years ago had ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

Turns out we have a lot more in common with Neanderthals than we thought. In a stunning breakthrough, researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have mapped the ...