Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

For years, a small set of foot bones from Ethiopia sat at the center of a quiet puzzle, so scientists kept circling back to ...

According to the Amnesty report (Page 48), which cited a separate report from Human Rights Watch, another nonprofit human ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

The most recent addition to the human family tree – named after its unusually fat head – roamed northern China at the same ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...