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 ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Fresh dating of Homo Erectus fossils suggests ancient humans reached East Asia far earlier than once believed.

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...

Interestingly, the Petralona skull bears a striking resemblance to a 300,000-year-old cranium found in Zambia, southern Africa, over a century ago. Most researchers classify this specimen as Homo ...

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