One of the more enduring mysteries about Neanderthals is whether they had a spoken language, a trait that’s impossible to ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

However, Neanderthals tended to bury their dead deeper in caves, whereas H. sapiens were buried in cave entrances or rock ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 ...

In fact, one of the skulls discovered at Dmanisi was that of a very old individual with no teeth ... fossil could therefore ...

Since its discovery in 1993, the Altamura Man, dating back at least 130,000 years, has continued to captivate scientists and ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

We looked up the slope, and there were fragments of the skull and fragments of a pelvis and fragments of an arm bone and the ...

New data is revealing deeper insights into how early humans interbred with Denisovans in events that significantly shaped our ...

Listed among our early romantic conquests are the Denisovans, and researchers now believe we mated with at least three distinct populations of this long-extinct species. “It’s a common misconception ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Evolutionary differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals The primary evolutionary differences between Homo sapiens ...