Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Thus, with the loss of hair, humans from the cradle of humanity developed dark skin to survive UV rays. White-skinned humans ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...