The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 million years ago (top) until the modern-day (bottom). For the study, the team used data from the ...

It probably feels obvious that having a close friend can influence your well-being. But do the groups that you're a part of ...

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Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study Sarah Kuta ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...