A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

After discovering fossilized facial bones in Spain, researchers now say they've found the oldest face of Western Europe. In ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.