This overview argues that the story of human evolution is being reshaped by a series of recent discoveries rather than by one single breakthrough alone. It points to finds such as 3.3-million-year-old ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

The discovery significantly shifts the timeline for species such as our own, Homo sapiens, and Homo neanderthalensis The discovery significantly shifts the timeline for species such as our own, Homo ...