Language is a defining characteristic of humanity, yet its origins remain a topic of intense debate. Some researchers argue ...

Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers ...

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

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

At the Atapuerca archaeological site in Burgos, Spain, the oldest human in Western Europe was discovered for the third time, ...

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.

Until now, the prevailing view was that our species, Homo sapiens, first arose in Africa suggested we descended from a single ...

THE DISCOVERY A small excavation, just two square meters. And from the deepest layers, prehistoric human bones began to ...