The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

An international team of archaeologists, ethnologists and historians has uncovered the oldest-known evidence of stone blade ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language in humans. When put in mice, it changed the way ...

A groundbreaking study implicates a specific gene in the evolution of human speech, highlighting its uniqueness to Homo ...

The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a very rare type of Rh factor, distinct from that of Denisovans and early Homo sapiens, which could have been fatal to their newborns. Stéphane ...

Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a ...

However, Mongle and other paleoanthropologists say it’s too early to definitively group ... a formal scientific species name such as Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis. A skull is typically ...

and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location serving as a hub for Homo sapiens during the early ... Feb. 21, 2024 — Neanderthals created stone ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

This Rh variant — a type of RhD, another red blood cell antigen — is not compatible with the variants the team found in the Denisovans or the early Homo sapiens in their study. "For any case ...