The human chin is one of evolution’s strangest quirks. Unlike other primates, we alone have a protruding bony point beneath ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Stone tools from central China dated to 160,000 years ago show early hafting, planning and skill, reshaping views of East ...

A human molar discovered in a cave in Laos provides the first physical evidence that Denisovans lived in Southeast Asia. Dated to between 164,000 and 131,000 years ago, protein analysis links the ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

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The average waist size for U.S. women is 38.5 inches, indicating widespread abdominal obesity. Larger waist sizes are linked with increased risks of chronic diseases, like heart disease and diabetes.

An international research team found that a gene influencing lip shape in a Latin American population appears to have been inherited from the Denisovans, an extinct group of ancient humans who lived ...