Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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.

Here's how early humans spread from East Africa all around the world. Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

The first hominins evolved in Africa and began to leave the continent about 2 million years ago. But, unlike today, Earth was home to many different forms of human life. Krause and other ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological ... early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil ...

Gibraltar 1, the first adult female Neanderthal skull ever discovered The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and ...

Scientists have long believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans first learned to thrive in ... survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known.