Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...

In a first, scientists recovered human DNA from ancient cave paintings, a breakthrough that could open new ways to ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

Scientists extracted proteins from Homo naledi teeth for the first time and found evidence that only females were buried.

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

A new Homo floresiensis study suggests the extinct "hobbit" scavenged Komodo dragon kills instead of hunting large prey or ...

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward explains how low-oxygen burial conditions lead to human brain preservation for thousands of years.

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