The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a deep body of water.

California's Sierra Nevada glaciers have remained intact for at least 10,000 years. New research shows they will vanish ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Some 12,000 years ago, groups of pioneering hunter-gatherers ventured into the harsh Arabian desert. They survived thanks to fleeting watering holes — ephemeral oases that they shared with animals.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. The COVID-19 pandemic was, at its heart, a ...