To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

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