Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

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Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

The Enlightenment era aligned the role of dignity with governance. Kant rooted it in merit, moral integrity and universal ...

Ochre clay used in body painting gave our ancestors protection against a rise in harmful UV radiation, say scientists ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Modern humans were already living throughout the ... say the bones belong to small Homo sapiens—perhaps people who suffered from microcephaly, a condition in which the brain fails to grow ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

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