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

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

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

Until now, the earliest clear evidence of humans creating fire dates to roughly 50,000 years ago. The new findings push that ...

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 ...