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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...