Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

A question that we have all asked ourselves at some time is what will happen when human beings become extinct or what species ...

New research has discovered an extinct relative of modern humans known as Homo naledi buried their dead and engraved cave walls around 250,000 years ago. The discovery is a surprise as it changes ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Denisovan - an extinct human relative of both Neanderthals and modern humans that lived across Asia. They are named after Denisova Cave in Russia, where the first finger bone was found.

Using fossils, he argued in 1796 that many species had become extinct in the wake of natural catastrophes. Humans had been causing extinctions at least since the Ice Age. Polynesian expansion ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

“Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos–flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia– making them fairly close relatives of humans.” Mixodectes belonged to an ...