A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans ... abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...

Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved cave walls about 250,000 years ago, according to new research.

Using advanced microscopy and imaging techniques, scientists have revealed new parts of the human body and overturned previous misconceptions.