Among extant genes known to have originated among Denisovans are sequences common in Tibetan populations that help the body ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

We know throughout history that the size of modern humans and extinct human species—a collective group known as ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

and comparisons with modern human genomes revealed that Neanderthal and modern humans had interbred in the past. A few months later, analysis of a genome sequenced from a finger bone excavated in the ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Can we really achieve immortality? Explore the latest scientific breakthroughs, ethical dilemmas, and what the future might ...