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

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 ...

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

Researchers of this study conducted uranium-based dating, which revealed that Homo juluensis lived sometime between 140,000 ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

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.

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk — a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago — ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

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