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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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New DNA and protein studies reveal the Dragon Man skull is of a Denisovan, rewriting the story of early human evolution in ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

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

Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in the womb, which may have shaped our ...