Discovery of a 50,000-year-old isolated Neanderthal population is completely rewriting our understanding of human extinction ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...

The Northridge boys cross country team lost some talented runners to graduation. But Raider coach Ryan McClane also has four of his five top runners returning from a Northridge team that finished ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

A groundbreaking fossil study reveals that early human ancestors exhibited striking sexual dimorphism, reshaping our ...

A 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between the two species.

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...