A groundbreaking study of the Skhūl I skull challenges our understanding of early human evolution.

TEHRAN - In a landmark announcement during the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Friday, in Paris, the ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

But since Homo sapiens is at least 300,000 years old, one may reasonably assume that language may have been a feature of our ancestors for all our species’ history.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

We break down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from them.

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...