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In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

To uncover these surprising sexual preferences, researchers examined the sex chromosomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals. In females, these consist of a pair of X chromosomes, while males ...

Discover why the human chin evolution mystery still puzzles scientists. Explore fossil evidence, theories, and expert insights. Read now.

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...