The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range of environments ...

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

U-M expert explains archaeological significance of small African country, a vital source of freshwater and crucial to the study of biodiversity A ...

Plastic bottles, T-shirts, and fast fashion items may become future fossils, as many are only partially recycled, leaving ...

In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal of Human Evolution, Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees. By including ...

CNN: What are the fossils of the future going to be? Clothing is mostly invisible in the archaeological record, and we’re really changing the odds by, instead of wearing stuff that is eminently ...

Imagine the planet tens of millions of years from now. Homo sapiens as a species is likely long gone, wiped out by a mass extinction it helped unleash. What traces will humanity leave embedded in ...

do have a surprising amount in common with us mere homo sapiens. And tonight, a new National Geographic WILD docuseries is delving into that uncanny phenomenon. Debuting at 9pm Eastern Time on ...

Both the Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago. While Neanderthal DNA accounts for around 2 percent of the genome of non-African modern humans ...

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has been hazy. Now a team from the University of ...