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The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

Russell T. Davies confirms he is changing the racist name of a classic Doctor Who villain ahead of his upcoming spin-off ...

In Morocco’s Jebel Irhoud cave, scientists discovered fossils dating back 315,000 years—100,000 years older than any previous Homo sapiens remains. Found with stone tools and butchered animal bones, ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

Reaction to the upcoming name change has been mixed, with fans noting that the Silurians themselves previously referred to ...

The last known members of the Homo erectus species were killed in a "mass death" event between 117,000 and 108,000 ago, scientists have said. By re-analyzing remains first discovered almost a century ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the continent.

Always held in Venice, the Homo Faber Biennial is never one to miss. Though it only takes place every other year, the Homo ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognize them as being very different from you. You'd see a certain "human-ness" in the stance, and their size and shape might be similar ...