Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

As for the other human species, Stringer said: “We don’t know why the Denisovans died out, but we know that within a few thousand years of Homo sapiens getting to that region of Siberia, ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the moment, according to a new study.

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time 1.5 million years ago, a study found.

They then review seven other explanations that may underlie the distinctive character of human culture that are found in a variety of animal species, even in some invertebrates.