Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

New fossil finds in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei had human-like hands and feet, ending a long debate over its ...

From lush forests to dry savannas, Earth’s climate transformed over millions of years, forcing early hominins to adapt, ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...

A human skull discovered in China, believed to be about a million years old, suggests that Homo sapiens may have emerged at least 500,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers also ...

The finding, published in Science, indicated that the evolutionary split between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans may have occurred much earlier than previously thought. “This changes a lot ...

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of our species. Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo ...

A new study places the divergence of the Homo sapiens lineage more than a million years ago, radically pushing back the timeline of human evolution and revealing a past much more complex than ...

It's time to rewrite the family tree, as scientists have revealed that our species is even older than we thought. Previous studies have proved that we evolved in Africa before finally conquering 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. Scientists ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.