The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group ...

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what prehistoric humans may have sounded like millions of years ago.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...