"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human species, which independently accumulated mutations and cultural innovations ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

Splitting "archaic Homo" in this area into at least four species — H. floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi and the newly named H. juluensis — will help researchers better understand the ...

The tiny archaic humans, ... Now, even older fossils from 700,000 years ago show that an early human species was likely about 2½ inches smaller than their later ancestors.

Eventually, as those humans began migrating out of Africa, some came across these archaic human species, and the populations began to interact. At least since the 1990s, ...

Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart from our ancient counterparts. New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than ...