Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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 ...

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution - ANALYSIS: Changes in the appearance of ancient ...

Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human ...

Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the time — Johanson and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparred over their differing ...

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 later reconnected ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Scientists believe the late Middle Pleistocene, which started around 300,000 years ago, was a pivotal period for the evolution of hominins — species that are regarded as human or closely related ...

If we do that, it won’t go well for us. The nature of human evolution has to change.” The study was published Monday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s longest ...