Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

The human-like skull was discovered in a cave in northern Greece, but scientists were baffled over who it belonged to ...

A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent ...

The dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic was a major development in the evolution of modern human culture. Although ...