In a groundbreaking discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

A new study from Cambridge genetic researchers is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

I am looking forward to seeing more new finds and more certain human fossil or ancient DNA or paleoproteomic (ancient protein ...

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, involves obtaining DNA from a sample of cells in your body to identify specific genes, chromosomes, or proteins, including those that are faulty (known as ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

Unlike Neanderthal DNA, which comprises roughly 2% of non-African modern ... Fossil evidence indicates that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa and other regions ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

That project collected DNA sequences from around the world between 2008 and ... Fossil evidence shows that Homo Erectus and Homo heidelbergensis both occupied Africa and other areas during the correct ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...