A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the Neanderthals and Denisovans that our ancestors ...

Our Pleistocene family tree is in no way restricted to simply just us, the neanderthals and the denisovans. Throughout the ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Findings suggest the presence of cultural remains from homo heidelbergensis or even older species before neanderthals.

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...