A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...
The study estimates that the longi clade split from the line that would eventually give rise to modern humans around 1.32 million years ago. That would make Yunxian 2 one of the group’s oldest known ...
A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Thursday, ...
Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...
For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...
Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.