From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...

10,000-Year-Old Genomes Rewrite Human Evolution ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated, through multi-agent simulations in a two-dimensional space, that the ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...