Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...