A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

Homo sapiens are an awfully vain species. We love to go on about our big brains and our opposable thumbs — and the fact is we wouldn’t be good for much at all without them. But there’s one human ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ...