The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new study that deepens scientific understanding of the enigmatic ancient humans first ...

A jawbone found in Taiwan, identified as belonging to the elusive Denisovans, challenges everything we thought we knew about where these mysterious hominins lived. Once believed to only inhabit cold, ...

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

There’s no question that prehistoric hominins had it tougher than we do today, with the dangers of big-game hunting and a lack of modern healthcare stacking the odds of survival against them. It’s ...

Genetic data of unprecedented completeness have been pulled from the fossil remains of a young Stone Age woman. The DNA helps illuminate the relationships among her group — ancient Siberians known as ...

A new paper by archaeologists at UC Davis highlights that our extinct cousins, the Denisovans, reached the “roof of the world” about 160,000 years ago — 120,000 years earlier than previous estimates ...

One of the most surprising details of human evolution revealed by the sequencing of DNA from ancient fossils is that some bones thought to be Neanderthals were actually those of an entirely new kind ...

Neanderthals, Denisovans and our ancestors were mixing and mingling a long time ago – and some of our genetics can be traced back to these archaic humans. In Asians, as much as 3% of an individual’s ...

Humans weren’t just making babies with Neanderthals back in the day. A new study that compares the genomes of different groups of modern humans has found that our ancestors interbred with another ...