Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba ... we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, ...