In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...

Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens—were only one ... about human history was whether our ancestors interacted and mated with these other ...

New research has revealed that Homo erectus in Java persisted far longer than previously believed, possibly overlapping with ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

One of the reasons for the lack of clarity is the definition of species itself: what do we mean by Homo sapiens? When did modern humans reach each of the 7 continents? Human ancestors arrived in ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

At one time, at least three human ancestor groups - Denisovans, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens - coexisted in Eurasia and sometimes interbred, researchers say. "We can identity Neanderthal elements ...

One ambitious company has a plan to establish a colony of adventurous humans beneath the sea, but scientists have some doubts ...

Neanderthals live on within us. These ancient human cousins, and others called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors. They mingled and had children. So some of who they ...

shedding light on how Neanderthals disappeared and potentially rewriting the story of how and when our Homo sapiens ancestors left Africa. “To date, most genetic data suggests that modern humans ...

Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens—were only one of several types ... Until recently, one of the mysteries about human history was whether our ...