Another focus was on the impact of archaic hominin ancestry -- specifically, Neanderthal and Denisovan -- on disease susceptibility.

The two fossils are the first ever hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland and demonstrate that Homo erectus populations extended beyond Java onto the exposed lowland plains during the Middle ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Child-directed speech, or “baby talk,” plays a crucial role in language development and is a near-universal human behavior.

Protein sequences preserved in four tooth fossils from the southern African hominin species, Paranthropus robustus, indicate that a small tooth once thought to belong to a female was actually male.

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

Scientists typically consider skulls, with telltale bumps and ridges, the best type of fossilized remains to understand the form or appearance of an extinct hominin species ... in a pinkie fossil ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).