Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...