An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other species. In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...