Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

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

But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

Discover why the human chin evolution mystery still puzzles scientists. Explore fossil evidence, theories, and expert ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

Homo erectus | Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? The Ancients host Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor John Mcnabb at the University of Southampton to discuss the extinct species ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...