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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 study from researchers connected to the University of Tubingen and the University of Cape Town looked at hybridization in ...

Agents built on top of today's models often break with simple changes — a new library, a workflow modification — and require a human engineer to fix it. That's one of the most persistent challenges in ...

A stunning discovery at an archaeological dig in the UK is rewriting the timeline of when humans first made fire. Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...