Humans have been missing the mark since the beginning of their evolution, and the key to remedying this is to recognize the ...

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

in 2017, Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new book, The Tyranny of the Brain, the French paleoanthropologist traces ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier cousins ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we know about it so far.

A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first crossed paths. The discovery places the two ancient human species not in the ...