A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

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Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

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

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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

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