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

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.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

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

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

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

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

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

An analysis of the blood types of one Denisovan and three Neanderthal individuals has uncovered new clues to the evolutionary history, health, and vulnerabilities of their populations. Silvana Condemi ...

Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder has investigated a gene passed from Denisovan populations to modern humans, which underwent positive selection in Indigenous American ...

Based on ancient DNA methylation patterns, a portrait of a juvenile female Denisovan has been recreated. A decade ago, scientists excavating Denisova Cave in southern Siberia discovered fossils of a ...