New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious population that split from our ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This study ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a million years, according to a new study that’s turning heads across the ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled ...