Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals work together? History is rewritten by a finding that is 110,000 years old. There are grave ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.