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

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

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

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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

By bno - Taipei Office A human skull unearthed in central China and dated to around 1mn years ago could overturn prevailing ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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 ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than steak. Diet has been a crucial component of human evolution, says Tina Lüdecke, a geochemist at the Max Planck ...

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 ...