Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

For years, the dominant narrative held that modern humans arose from a single, unbroken lineage in Africa. But then came ...

A pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin ... not related to modern-day people, they are a very close branch of the family tree.

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last ... like chopping off a branch of the tree of life and all of that associated phylogenetic diversity is also lost.” ...

In addition to the tree resin artifacts, other artifacts provide insights into the adaptive strategies and capabilities of these early humans ... based on modern population genetics, that ...

Its mashup of both ancient and more modern anatomical ... of these ancient humans found outside the cave that gives the group its name. The newly proposed phylogenetic tree suggests the Dragon ...

Now, some new analysis is further filling in the timeline of Neanderthal and modern ... from human remains at other paleolithic sites in Europe. They used this data to construct a family tree ...

The mandible in question is named HLD 6 and dates back to an important period in hominin evolution, just before some of the traits that are still seen in modern ... on the human family tree ...

but there are a few ideas about how Denisovans fit into the family tree. It’s thought that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans are all descended from a common ancestor of Homo ...

Human beings and other great apes evolved ... species in the span of tens of millions of years. The genetic tree for modern birds was decked with relationships that few, if any, taxonomists ...

A molar discovered in a cave in Laos shows where the enigmatic Denisovans could have interbred with the ancestors of modern humans. By Carl Zimmer A tooth found inside of a mountain cave in Laos ...