Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

What did people do all day before jobs were invented? A video explores how early humans spent their time. Spoiler: It wasn't ...

A tiny portion of the human genome may have had a surprisingly large impact on our ability to develop language. New research ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have an outsized impact on humans’ language abilities and that these sequences ...

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

Ancient Homo erectus teeth found in China reveal a possible hidden genetic link to modern humans who are living today.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...