Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists now recognize more than a dozen species in the Homo genus. So what, exactly, was the first human species? The answer, ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside our early human forebears. These unearthed remnants provide a glimpse into ...

The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike. It ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An extinct human species that lived around 300,000 years ago may have ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our closest extinct relatives, yet almost nobody knew what they actually looked like ...

A strange theory suggests a human-like species, Homo floresiensis, may still inhabit Flores Island caves. These small-bodied ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...