American researchers have reignited the debate over the concept by publishing an article that questions the idea of a new ...

An international research team has identified the earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits. The ...

A new study dates Greece’s Petralona Cave skull to as much as 500,000 years, offering fresh insight into early human evolution in Europe.

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and ...

Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

A child's skull from 140,000 years ago has unlocked a surprising connection between Neanderthals and homo-sapiens.

The skeleton of a five-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago, and which has characteristics of both species, was found in a prehistoric cave in northern Israel.The post Earliest evidence ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

A new human species has been identified from 2.65-million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, reshaping views on our ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...