In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...

Based on the fossil record, we know that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa (and beyond) during the period in question, making them possible candidates for these ...

When Asian Homo erectus came back to Africa as Homo sapiens they interbred with the relic African Homo erectus populations. This chart from the recent study, A structured coalescent model reveals deep ...