Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our own evolutionary ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

Early human ancestors also carried these toolkits of carved and chipped stones long distances, possibly indicating an ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

According to Finestone, Nyayanga stones are significantly older than other known examples of ancient stone transport. Previously, the oldest evidence of hominins moving rocks over significant ...

The researchers carefully compared the newly discovered teeth with known specimens of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy’s species) and early Homo. They found that these teeth belonged to both early ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...