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

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

These human species interbred widely during the periods they overlapped, and many modern humans carry at least some Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA. If these species hadn't vanished, they might have ...

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a ...

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising levels ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Most of what scientists knew came from gene flow studies—traces of Denisovan DNA found in living people from Asia and Oceania. These studies hinted at the existence of different Denisovan groups ...