The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the slender-faced Homo antecessor, dating back around 850,000 ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...