With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

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

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

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

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

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

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 ...

Prehistoric Jomon People of Japan Show Little to No Denisovan Ancestry, New Study Finds - © Fu et al, Cell (2025) CC-by-4.0 A newly published genetic study has ...