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

The findings challenge long-held ideas about the linearity of human evolution, especially in East Asia, and open new ...

A multinational team of scientists has revealed what could be one of the most significant paleoanthropological discoveries in ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

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 ...

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 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 ...