A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

A MAJOR mystery surrounding tiny ancient human cousins nicknamed “Hobbits” has finally been solved. Scientists say they’ve cracked a main puzzle about how the 3-foot-tall species ...

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

“So, the brain is growing because these creatures need to be able to adapt to their environments, and because this is ...

Researchers have recently uncovered a series of artifacts that suggest the existence of pre-human engineers, challenging our understanding of early human evolution. These findings, dispersed globally, ...

As humanity propels itself forward with unprecedented velocity in the fields of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and genetic engineering, we find ourselves not merely improving our tools or ...

Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by Oxford University Press suggests that the r ...