The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

The Denisovans provided the genetic difference for Asian and Australid populations, two of the four “root races” from which ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Step back in time, folks, and imagine a world of primitive cave dwellers, clad in animal skins, and struggling to … Continue ...

However, the Denisovans were the first archaic human to be identified in a lab thanks to ... distinctive enough to allow a formal scientific species name such as Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis.

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

However, the Denisovans were the first archaic human to be identified in ... to allow a formal scientific species name such as Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis. A skull is typically, but ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...