Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

Proteins recovered from ancient human relatives that roamed China more than 400,000 years ago could explain how mysterious ...

Miners in Germany's Neander Valley unearthed peculiar bones in 1856, revealing evidence of a distinct human type. This ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...

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We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...