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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...

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

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously thought. The skull, known as Yunxian 2, was discovered in Hubei Province ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...