Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

Hominins evolved in Africa. The first species to occupy multiple continents was Homo erectus, and the first fossil evidence we have of them beyond Africa comes from Dmanisi in Georgia. These ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

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

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.