The announcement of a new hominid species Homo longi, possibly a parallel and contemporaneous species of Homo sapiens, has made the story of human evolution even more complex. The lead scientists were ...
Neandertals are the comeback kids of human evolution. A mere decade ago, the burly, jut-jawed crowd was known as a dead-end species that lost out to us, Homo sapiens. But once geneticists began ...
An artist's conception of the unusual humans living in southwestern China 11,500 to 14,300 years ago. Image © Peter Schouten Last week, an international group of ...