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Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

ARUSHA: FOR many years, we have been trying to solve a big question about the origin of man and the secrets behind creation ...

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, cemented in place by mineral deposits, it launched a scientific mystery that would ...

Over 100 years ago the unearthing of a skull in the Sussex countryside became an international story of scientific discovery, ...

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

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures the Exposed Cranium Nebula in infrared. The dying star reveals ghostly skull-like structures.

The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, ...

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...