A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found ...

Neanderthals are often portrayed as primitive and unintelligent, but archaeological discoveries tell a different story. From ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 476,000-year-old wooden structure near Kalambo Falls in Zambia, making it the oldest known timber construction on Earth. The discovery predates Homo sapiens and ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

Since publication of their paper, “spandrel” has become shorthand among evolutionary biologists for an incidental trait, or ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Humans have been missing the mark since the beginning of their evolution, and the key to remedying this is to recognize the ...

Nearly half a million years ago - far earlier than researchers once believed - early humans were already building wooden structures.

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

Technological acceleration may generate explosive adjustments rather than gradual adaptation. Governments must appoint senior science and technology advisors with a mandate for analysis and forecastin ...