Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we ...

It took a while, but researchers believe they now have a molecular marker to reliably spot Denisovan fossils. Compared with ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden and Leipzig compared brain-cell development in modern humans and Neanderthals. In human brain organoids carrying ancestral Neanderthal amino acids, ...

Scientists have found fossilized bones, skull parts, they’ve even found traces of their genes in people alive today. But what ...

This gravity-defying rail journey through the Swiss Alps is a portal to the past, which brings you up close to mesolithic and ...

Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.

From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to religion's promise of an afterlife, psychiatrist Prof. Yoram Yovell explains why ...

A new discovery beneath Paris suggests Julius Caesar’s account of sacking the original settlement of Lutetia wasn’t all that ...

The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq’s Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the closest evolutionary cousins of our species, exhibiting a wound ...

In a letter to the editor, Rick Scaggs argues that AI’s rapid growth could displace humans much as Homo sapiens replaced ...

This gravity-defying rail journey through the Swiss Alps is a portal to the past, which brings you up close to mesolithic and ...