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

Neanderthals arose about 430,000 years ago, living in Europe and central Asia until their demise some 40,000 years ago.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

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

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

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

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 ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.

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 ...

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