Weak necks, soft spots, and underdeveloped brains make our babies much less independent than other great apes.

Two species of humans occupied the same small cave in southern Türkiye across a span of roughly 20,000 years, and the stone ...

Two separate cave sites in the Levant now show that Neanderthals and modern humans used the same stone tools, hunted the same ...

A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of lower jaws from North Africa demonstrates variation among hominin fossils. The jaw on the upper right is from the ...

Istanbul: Groundbreaking archaeological research from southern Türkiye suggests a surprising new narrative: modern humans and Neanderthals may have lived as friends, sharing elements of their culture.

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended from ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic variant ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

A new study uses age-stratified allele frequencies to map ongoing natural selection and rare pathogenic variants.