Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about cannibalism victims.

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree.

The plot thickened with the later discovery of Denisovans, another mysterious branch of the human family tree. Each new finding deepened the mystery of who we are and where we came from.

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

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.

A discovery in a cave in the Altai Mountains reveals a mysterious branch of the human family tree. The Denisovans are a human relative discovered just over a decade ago. The DNA from the very ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

Lost branch of the human family tree The individuals who called the cave in Ranis home were among the first Homo sapiens to live in Europe.