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

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

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

An international research team from Japan, Taiwan, and Denmark investigated the ancient protein sequences of Taiwan's oldest ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

A cave in Israel reveals traces of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that differs significantly from what was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia ... indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 ...