WASHINGTON (AP) — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...