A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

A new study from Cambridge genetic researchers is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

In a groundbreaking discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range ...

A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

Mar. 31, 2025 — A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is ... New Species Revealed ...

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Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some 500,000 years ago ...

It might not always seem like it but we humans/homo sapiens have been very inventive ... “Wow it’s pretty amazing some human thousands of years ago came up with cement.” ...