A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children together, yet their faces ended up strikingly different. The contrast between our ...

To determine where Yunxian 2 belongs, researchers compared its shape with more than 170 other modern and fossil human skulls. Using geometric morphometrics, which maps thousands of shape differences ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...