Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from ...

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Israel suggests a possible Neanderthal-Homo sapien hybrid child. Unearthed in Skhul ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk and discovered in southern Poland’s Obłazowa Cave 40 years ago may be more than 42,000 ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

A study of a handful of very old bones revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were living and procreating with each other much more recently than anyone realized: just 47,000 years ago.

Credit: Public domain Scientists have uncovered how blood groups helped early humans (Homo sapiens) in their survival and expansion across the globe. The findings, published in Scientific Reports, ...