Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

New fossil and DNA studies reveal that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early Homo sapiens occurred ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Long before modern humans ruled the Earth, the Denisovans thrived in caves and mountains, leaving behind only fragments of bone — and their DNA inside us. New discoveries are finally revealing who ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Last month, in a tiny room in Manchester, UK, a niche group of biology scientists gathered to discuss if they needed to restrict research in an emerging technology that might affect humans and ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

On remote islands of Papua New Guinea, people carry a story that ties us all back to our deepest roots. Although their striking appearance once puzzled scientists, new genetic evidence shows they ...