Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Animal rock carvings discovery rewrites human history in the Middle East - Researchers have discovered life-size rock ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Ancient humans in northern China endured dramatic climate changes, creating new tools, hunting methods, and strategies to ...

The reanalysis further pushes back the divergence time of modern humans — Homo sapiens — whose ancestors are estimated to have lived in Africa around 500,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who lived between ...

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.

Betel nut chewing is more than just a simple habit. Throughout history, communities across Southeast Asia have used these nuts socially, spiritually, and medicinally. Wrapped in betel leaves and ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...