The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

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Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

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Fossils and genetic evidence reveal that human evolution was not a simple replacement of one species by another. Studies of ...

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Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

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Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear the same marks of butchery as ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some scientific support, researchers can't agree on which—or which combination—is ...

70,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs, according to new research that challenges longstanding ...