The world's first scientific facial reconstruction case based on the "Yunxian Man" skull fossils dating back approximately 1 million years was unveiled by Hubei Provincial Museum on Thursday, ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new ...

"This study clarifies a hominin fossil record that has tended to include anything that cannot easily be assigned to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens," said Bae in a press ...

A new genetic analysis of the earliest known modern human remains found in Ranis in Germany and Zlatý kůň in the Czech Republic suggests emigrant Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis mingled some ...

One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes so far sequenced, which were more than 42,000 years old, and revealed the individuals likely had dark skin, dark hair and brown eyes.

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...