Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary story that began approximately 6 million years ago and ...

New protein analysis suggests Homo erectus passed genes to Denisovans, creating an indirect evolutionary link to Homo sapiens.

Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo remains, overlapping with Australopithecus. Island hobbit mystery: Homo ...

Once, Earth was home to diverse human species, not just Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence reveals at least 21 early human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, coexisted and even interbred with ...