The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...

A new study reveals that a gene inherited from Neanderthals reduces muscle activity and may influence athletic performance.

This recombination helped form the modern human genome. Though the smaller group contributed only 20% of the genetic material, its role was critical in areas like brain development.

A new study delves into the development of the ilium, the largest bone in the pelvis, and the genes that underpin its ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.