The site has seen remarkable discoveries over 30 years, and excavations have opened a new unexplored chamber.

Studies of nonhuman primates have documented days up to months of carrying infants after death.

The site of Bianfu Cave provides evidence that this group spanned all of China during the later Middle Pleistocene.

Genome models are converging on a scenario in which two stem lineages separated 1.5 million years ago, and merged together 300,000 years ago.

Anthropologists from around the world contribute to a discussion of what public anthropology will be in the years to come.

The field is generating more new discoveries than ever, but significant setbacks for students and many researchers.

Two bones from the floor of the Penghu Strait reveal some of the latest evidence of Denisovan survival.

More and more, it looks like this event happened shortly before a million years ago, in the common ancestors of Neandertal, Denisovan, and African ancestral humans.

Study of a Neanderthal-derived haplotype of GHR show effects on height and lean body mass

New analysis of footprint trackways suggest a larger body size than previously thought for this Early Pleistocene human relative.

Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...

A study finds that Neanderthals had comparable insect trace evidence as gorillas and western chimpanzees.

Digital scans will help researchers test whether she fell out of a tree.

Open access article and data provide new evidence about the brain of Homo naledi.

Protein data from the Rising Star cave system show the known sample of this species is entirely female.

A reconstruction of the hominin's skull reveals an enlarged region linked to language and tool use, though what that means for its alleged funerary practices remains an open question.

New studies magnify the observation that three groups of Denisovans may have contributed to many living people's genomes, but I find some unanswered questions.

Introgression is widespread among lineages of big cats. Our ancestors encountered one of the biggest products.

To study accumulative stone throwing among wild chimpanzees, researchers hike deep into the savanna-woodland of Boé — a habitat increasingly threatened by industrial mining.

Ludzkość ma afrykańskie pochodzenie. Najnowsze odkrycia oparte na analizach DNA pokazują, że współcześni ludzie krzyżowali się z neandertalczykami i

Mixture demonstrated for old fossil teeth hints that anthropologists may have mixed ideas.

Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence of dentistry by more than 40,000 years.

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human from all other human lineages and one that it passed on to modern humans via...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human from all other human lineages and one that it passed on to modern humans via...

Our understanding of the timing of the human colonization of South America has been anchored by the Monte Verde II site in Chile, reported to date to ~14,500 years before the present (B.P.) and regard...

Abstract. Hybridization has many and varied impacts on the process of speciation. Hybridization may slow or reverse differentiation by allowing gene flow a

The earliest Acheulean artifacts in Eurasia may be closely connected to their development in Africa.

The earliest Acheulean artifacts in Eurasia may be closely connected to their development in Africa.

Providing some of the missing background for new research on natural selection from ancient DNA

Genomic surveys in humans identify a large amount of recent positive selection. Using the 3.9-million HapMap SNP dataset, we found that selection h...

The field is generating more new discoveries than ever, but significant setbacks for students and many researchers.