The human family tree is gaining new branches. Researchers have found in modern humans' DNA signs of two previously unknown ...

One of the co-authors of “Visual Depictions,” sculptor Gabriel Vinas, offers a visual elucidation of Lucy’s reconstruction in “ Santa Lucia ” – a marble sculpture of Lucy as a nude figure draped in ...

According to a new study published in Science, all modern humans carry ancient genetic sequences from so-called "ghost ancestors"—lineages of hominins that died out tens and hundreds of thousands of ...

They’ve been breaking the binary for 42 million years, but now we understand the process, they might be easier to farm.

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic ...

In the new study, Moorjani and her colleagues reasoned that everyone's genome contains a record of their ancestry. They investigated whether it was possible to uncover signs of "long-extinct ancestors ...

But did our direct ancestors interbreed with other long-lost hominin lineages before the first major migrations out of Africa ...

We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost “ghost ancestor” inside us – and by putting all the different bits together, we ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

A new study has uncovered an extraordinary set of 1.43-million-year-old fossil footprints in northern Kenya, providing a rare glimpse into the behavior and physical traits of an extinct human relative ...

The imprints’ distribution and dating also suggest the archaic humans sometimes traveled in groups. In one instance at GaJi10 ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.