A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals and Denisovans, disappeared long before us, leaving behind only fossils and ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When early modern humans encountered Neanderthals and Denisovans, these archaic humans contributed DNA to our genomes. But how many archaic human ...