A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...

A primitive form of hominid thought to have died out as modern humans evolved appears to have lived among us for years, new research into an extraordinary set of fossils suggests.

Islands in Southeast Asia were clearly important in the evolution of early humans, say scientists who have turned up 50,000-year-old remains of what they suspect is a previously unknown human species.

"Previously, the oldest fossil attributed to the genus Homo was an upper jaw from Hadar, Ethiopia, dated to 2.35m years ago," he told BBC News. "So this new discovery pushes the human line back by ...

But new research finds that human hands are more primitive than those of our closest primate ancestors chimpanzees. The study, published in the the journal Nature Communications, ...

But some say primitive humans evolved into modern humans in many places around the world. Others, such as paleontologist Chris Stringer from the Museum of Natural History in London, say modern ...

Stocky Neanderthals. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the only living members of the human lineage, Homo.Scientists think that lineage arose in Africa about 2 million years ago, relatively soon ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

Stone tools discovered in China suggest early humans migrated more than 2 million years ago. The Week. US Edition. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE. Less than $3 per week.

The arrival of early, primitive humans on Earth during the Pleistocene period, roughly 1.8 million years ago, caused a five-fold increase in extinction rates of proboscidean species, ...