A study from U.S. and Chinese researchers suggests Neanderthals and early modern humans probably had similar cognitive ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

China. A Denisovan tooth from Harbin was also analyzed for comparison. Because the fossils are irreplaceable, Fu used an acid ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

Sacre bleu! Big news on the early modern human front this week in France as researchers published findings that suggest Homo sapiens were actually roaming Earth about 10,000 years earlier than ...

We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the damage.

May 11 (UPI) --The earliest modern artifacts in Europe, including blade-like tools and animal tooth pendants, were left by pioneering groups of modern humans, according to the findings of an ...

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...