A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...
A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...
Groundbreaking research reveals that human microbes can trigger genetic brain activity in other species, suggesting our ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...
Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...
A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...