When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...

The Denisovans provided the genetic difference for Asian and Australid populations, two of the four “root races” from which ...

Later, in the 1960s, South African archaeologist Glynn Isaac expanded research through further excavations and geological ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

The neurologist on the science of subjectivity, and the irony of sophisticated tech that makes simple jobs harder.

Dr Vasile Ersek was part of a team of researchers who made a discovery which pushed back the date of early human ancestors' arrival in Europe ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in China has uncovered ancient human fossils that could reshape our understanding of human ...

Back then, many paleoanthropologists thought that present-day human populations evolved regionally from archaic hominins such as Homo erectus, which left Africa about 2 million years ago. In effect, ...