It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

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

I n a stunning revelation, researchers have uncovered a new human species that is set to revolutionize our understanding of human evolution. Homo juluensis, which lived in Asia around 300,000 to ...

Discover the story of the human brain like never before with Dr Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a pioneering neuroscientist from ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health! Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nature, modern humans may have inherited 20% of their DNA—and a boost in brainpower ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools in China that experts say have caused "big upset" to the way we think about East ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...