Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...