Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

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

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

A new study challenged the belief that environmental factors were solely responsible for the shift from hunting and gathering ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

Our environment is changing rapidly, largely as a result of human activities, leading to a significant decline in ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, presented his “survival of the friendliness” ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...