“Very early modern humans from 40,000 years ago don’t have ... Like these kind of feel good stories? Get The Brighter Side of News' newsletter.

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the ...

There are more than 78,000 modern human genes that have mixed with nearly ... fewer offspring means fewer genetic variants associated with autism get passed down over time. So, if these variants ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may have meant for the early modern humans who migrated out of Africa, and what it means for us today.

Specifically, Cann and colleagues hypothesized that the ancestress of all of modern humanity lived only 200,000 years ago, rather than more than a million years ago, when primitive humans first ...