In the plains of western Ukraine, researchers digging through ancient soil found a handful of small, broken pieces of ivory that might change how we think about early humans. The fragments—24 in total ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled ...

Humans once had a way smaller footprint. "Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa," says Arev Sümer, a paleogenetics PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts ...

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 ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...