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

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 ...

Languages: English. 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 ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other species. In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ...

explores the six-million-year epic of human evolution. Unlike many museum exhibits on human evolution, the hall does not focus on a single specimen, like Lucy, or the overall structure of the ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

Chris Stringer, a research leader in human evolution at London’s Natural History Museum, said the discovery was a “very important find.” “The facial shape is distinct from that of ...

The research "introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe," study author Rosa Huguet, of Spain's University of Rovira i Virgili, said at a news conference, according to the ...

“This discovery introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution in Europe,” Huguet said at a March 11 press briefing. Huguet’s team digitally scanned each fossil fragment to create a ...

This finding not only strengthens Atapuerca's role as a global reference in the study of human evolution, but also opens up new questions about the diversity of hominids that inhabited Europe in ...