The story of our human origins has just become more complex. A recent study reveals that we descend not from one, but from at least two distinct ancestral populations. Researchers from ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Faces are a huge part of human identity. Researchers have found multiple human remains across decades, which showcase how ...

This discovery opens the door for further investigation into early human diversity, especially as scientists try to match these genetic ancestors with known fossil groups like Homo erectus and ...

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 ...

Homo erectus arose around 2 million years ago and ... It can be challenging to identify which group of early humans a fossil find belongs to if there's only a single fragment versus many bones ...

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Pink bears some resemblance to Homo erectus, which is why it has been provisionally named Homo affinis erectus. Homo erectus lived around 2 million years ago and moved from Africa to regions of ...

Dated to between 1.5 and 1.6 mya, and discovered on the western side of Lake Turkana Kenya in the mid 1980s by Kamoya Kimeu, leader of the paleontological team dubbed the ‘Hominid Gang’.