If Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having neonatal hemolytic ...

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for ...

UCSB's Professor David Tilman just recieved the National Medal of Science for revealing the importance of biodiversity.

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Once Africans became items of commerce, it became imperative that their status be recalibrated and their human status ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Was blood a factor in the demise of the Neanderthals? New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...