New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals ... old mystery but also paves the way for future research into our evolutionary past.

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication ... full of spectacular grave goods and human sacrifices. Researchers are unsure of the meaning of this ritual, but a new study ...