Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage — a discovery ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

We found the Olduvai bone tools in 2018 and recently described them in the journal Nature. They show that by 1.5 million years ago, our ancestors (Homo erectus) had already developed the cognitive ...

That range spans three different human ancestors: Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and early Homo sapiens. “This is possibly the first evidence of the use of natural shapes for varied activities,” ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

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

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

Fossils from the era point to two species, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, that inhabited Africa and other regions. Either could be candidates for the ancestral groups identified in the study.

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...