As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo sapiens was one of these branches that emerged in Africa, spread across the world ...

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Fossils found at Kow Swamp, Australia, initially suggested archaic human presence due to robust skulls. However, later ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and other ancient relatives were evolutionary dead ends — unfortunate cousins who left no descendants. In the 30 years since I left university, those early lessons have ...