An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...