Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

P eople living in North Africa today can trace their ancestry back to a unique human population that lived in the Sahara at a ...

Their lineage remained isolated throughout most of its existence before the Sahara again became uninhabitable. At the end of ...

The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ...

Ramirez are creating brilliant work that can’t be grouped into the often limiting cis-male/-female category—and that’s something to be celebrated. Why, then, do we persist in specifically ...

Based on the shape of the bones, the researchers think that this individual was a young adult female from the species P ... Related: 1.4 million-year-old jaw that was 'a bit weird for Homo' turns out ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

The Boston Celtics are linking up with the team's television affiliate NBC Sports Boston for a special all-female broadcast this Tuesday, March 18 when the Celtics host the Brooklyn Nets. This is the ...

Hungary is at the bottom, with no women in government positions. In 2022, however, the country elected its first female president - Katalin Novák. She held the post until her resignation ...

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 ...

Subsequently, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old. Estimates of when language originated vary widely, based on different ...

But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal DNA. We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago. Watch as ...