That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

The most recent addition to the human family tree – named after its unusually fat head – roamed northern China at the same ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The northern China region was inhabited by different human species at a time. New research has confirmed that a species of ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Denisovans were an extinct human group identified almost entirely through DNA rather than complete skeletons. First discovered in Siberia, their genetic legacy is still present in populations across ...

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A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...