Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new human ...

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(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared. Cities would crumble, and forests would spread. And certain species would rise to ...