Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

There has been a more than 50 per cent increase in men 18-24-years-old not having sex since about the turn of the millennium.

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

That’s why people were so willing to work for him ... Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man, had been discovered in Java just before the turn of the century, and in the ...

Spanish paleoanthropologist Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro felt that Pink's people likely did not survive a severe human "bottleneck" nearly 900,000 years ago thought to have been caused by global ...

U-M expert explains archaeological significance of small African country, a vital source of freshwater and crucial to the study of biodiversity A ...

The researchers now believe these small-bodied people may have been early relatives ... from another extinct human species known as Homo erectus – often thought of as a direct ancestor of ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage — a discovery ...

This discovery opens the door for further investigation into early human diversity, especially as scientists try to match these genetic ancestors with known fossil groups like Homo erectus and ...

These individuals are considered to be a key link between earlier species like Homo erectus and later species like Neanderthals and modern humans. The bones found in Sima de los Huesos are ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like affinities for art and language; self-awareness; and an understanding of ...