Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...
A comparison of the high-quality genome sequence of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman with those of modern humans and Denisovans reveals a long history...
A tiny bone of an early human species, possibly Homo erectus, found in Kenya is the earliest evidence of a modern human-like hand, according to a team...
A dental study of 1,200 molars and premolars from 13 hominin species shows that no known species matches the expected profile of the last common ancestor...
New radiocarbon dating on seashell beads found at the Paleolithic site of Ksar Akil in Lebanon indicates that the earliest fully modern humans arrived...
European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...
New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...
According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...
A new research led by Spanish scientists casts doubt on the widely accepted theory that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia, Spain, at the...
A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...
Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...
According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...
Forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have found that heads of Americans are getting larger.
Uncle Sam, a national personification...
