Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

A groundbreaking fossil study reveals that early human ancestors exhibited striking sexual dimorphism, reshaping our ...

A 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between the two species.

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

It is widely accepted that the capacity for language-like communication arose before modern humans split off from ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Israel has unveiled a 140,000-year-old fossil that reshapes our understanding of early human ...

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

People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...