A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

Researchers claim to have uncovered the "oldest face in Western Europe" after excavating fragments of a skull at the Sima del ...

Academics have said they have found "the earliest human face of western Europe", after fragments of a skull were found at the Spanish archaeological cave site of Sima del Elefante. The skull of the ...

Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man, had been discovered in Java just before the turn of the century, and in the 1920s a similar kind of early human, called Peking man ...

Potential treatments need to be subject to the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson ...