Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting ...

Australia’s First Nations population, the Aboriginal Australians, say that they have always been in Australia. The evidence suggests that they are right. Indigenous Australians arrived on the ...

Sweden plans to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years, but the author questions whether this is feasible given the ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

Research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen ...

Bones from Grunceanu, Romania have been interpreted as evidence early humans made it to Europe 1.95 million years ago, long before other accepted examples. However, the find is not a clear-cut case, ...

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Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still ...

according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first humans capable of living in such hostile terrain. The moment when the first members of the extended human ...