People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the fittest" is constantly at ...

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment ...

Ancient human relatives were exposed to lead up to two million years ago, according to a new study. However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing language to flourish. UC ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

For the last 40,000 years, we (Homo sapiens) have lived alone - the last humans standing from a large and diverse group that, just 300,000 years ago, comprised at least nine species of walking, ...

WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans.

As a species, we (Homo sapiens) have been around for just 300,000 years - that’s a blink of an eye in terms of geological time. To put this span of time into perspective, imagine condensing the ...