Hominin fossils recovered from a cave site in Casablanca, Morocco, may represent a population that sat near the evolutionary fork separating the lineage leading to Homo sapiens from the one that ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Stratified rock layers inside a cave in southern Turkiye have produced the strongest direct evidence to date that ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Instead of showing two populations that merely occupied the same geographic regions at different times, the unearthed evidence suggests Neanderthals and modern humans may have ove ...