Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Understanding the genomes of non-human apes is crucial, because it gives geneticists insights into human evolution and the genetic factors that differentiate us from other apes, said Kateryna Makova, ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists have now discovered that some chose to remain ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Houzel's groundbreaking research on neuron counting has revolutionised our understanding of intelligence, cognition and what ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

The Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, where the fossil was found, are already known as a key site for understanding human evolution.

“This is another step towards understanding the first Europeans ... director of Spain’s National Human Evolution Research Center, said Tuesday at a press briefing, CNN reported.