The Xianrendong site, or "Immortal's Cave", located about 800 kilometers south of Beijing, was first discovered in 2020.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

A study reveals evidence of prehistoric surgery in Borneo, where a young adult survived a leg amputation about 31,000 years ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, before humans and Neanderthals diverged from a common ancestor, a new study ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising clues hidden deep in human DNA, and the findings are forcing experts to rethink a ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...