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 ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

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

With around 5,000 different ethno-linguistic and religious groups, India is one of the most culturally and genetically ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

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

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication ...