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

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

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 ...

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

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

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

Can you really trust the AI “story” your business tells — or is it just a 56 percent gamble waiting to happen?

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin was among the facial features Hammett used to describe his fictional ...

From Dick Dastardly to Jay Leno, there are some pretty recognizable signature chins out there. In fact, as a species, our chins are arguably our most definitive feature, as no other animal on the ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...