A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ...

Their simulations mapped out possible routes Neanderthals could have followed to reach Asia, and suggest that by traveling ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...