said pinpointing the interbreeding event helps line up other key parts of the human evolution timeline. The findings constrain “the timing of the arrival of populations in regions like China and ...

Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the time — Johanson and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparred over their differing ...

Primates have evolved over 65 million years, from early ancestors to over 300 species today—including us. This is the incredible story of our ancient origins. White House dismisses scores of ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

The discovery and the ongoing research threatens to overthrow key aspects of how the scientific world understands human evolution. Recommended Technological secrets from 300,000 BC: How one stick ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 million years ago (top) until the modern-day (bottom). For the study, the team used data from the ...

“Humanity’s development of the ability to speak was without doubt the key which made much of subsequent human physical and cultural evolution possible. That’s why dating the emergence of the ...

The teen's head shape doesn't fit with any of the early human relatives seen to date. If it's an undiscovered human ancestor, it could rewrite the story of human evolution. An ancient skull is ...

The large, capable human brain is a marvel of evolution, but how it evolved from ... gives us about a 1-million-year gap in the timeline between brain size increasing and the possible emergence ...