Europe's oldest humans remain the Dmanisi hominins, who lived 1.8 million years ago in what is now Georgia - Copyright AFP EDWIN BERCIÁN Europe's oldest humans ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe. The ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...