A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than the commonly held estimate of 65,000 years ago. Aboriginal Australian culture ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago suggests they were ...

So neuroscientific research, and the supervised use of psychedelics appear to confirm a phenomenon that occurs in the brains of adept meditators: the dissolution of ego, which allows direct perception ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human relative dating to 1.52 million years ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Thanks to a major breakthrough, we may soon learn everything about one of the most debated prehistoric human ancestors, the ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...