The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

The idea of a rapid human transformation, which supposedly turned our ancestors into modern beings around 50,000 years ago, is increasingly being challenged. A close examination of ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

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. Modern humans descended from ...

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 new ...