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Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

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

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

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

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, or an important figure. However, those who are a part of Sons of Union ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.