Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

Study of ancient footprints first ever to show that early ancestors coexisted in shared space PITTSBURGH, Pa. — In the arid ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

A 1990 federal law requires museums and cultural institutions to inventory remains or items thought to be funerary. But that ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...

Chimpanzees are known for their remarkable intelligence and use of tools, but could their cultures also evolve over time like human cultures? A new, multidisciplinary study suggests that some of their ...

Hunter-gatherer children acquire life skills early through community-based learning, demonstrating how egalitarianism and ...

According to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were informed in late October 2012 that “human remains had been discovered buried in a shallow grave” near Piercy, located near ...