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From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

Medney (" Beyond Kuiper ") and co-author Don Macnab-Stark have crafted an intelligent examination of the human condition in ...