The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The Levant region of the Middle East has long been recognized as a mixing pot of early humans and Neanderthals, some local and some on their way to and from other geographical regions. The many ...

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a normal process in bone remodeling that helps the tissue retain its structure and strength. Related: 28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after ...

This technical animation shows the function and operation of the plug-in hybrid drive of the new Audi A5 e-hybrid quattro. The hybrid management of the new models is designed for efficiency ...

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For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Humans and Neanderthals didn’t just coexist – they mingled, competed, and even had children together. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...