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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

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

Elevated hormone levels in the womb, combined with enhanced placental function, may have played a key role in human evolution ...

Dragon Man skull from China confirmed as Denisovan, offering groundbreaking insights into early human evolution and migration ...