Take a walk in London's Trafalgar Square this summer, and people of all body sizes—some tall, some short—will be wilting in the heat: a real mix of sizes.

Two Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan came from tall individuals. But we can’t generalise to a whole species just yet.

Long before humans developed writing and spoken language reached its modern complexity, we were communicating through visual signals. Much of the emotional content of a face-to-face interaction is not ...

A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may ...

New evidence suggests the extinct hominin Nutcracker Man was nearly 2 feet taller and dozens of pounds heavier than once thought and sometimes traveled in groups.

A model of four million years of human evolution suggests fruit, honey, and other carbohydrate-rich foods supplied glucose ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among ...

Closely related to both modern humans and Neanderthals, the Denisovans were a group of hominins who lived across Asia from ...

Perhaps the most evocative windows into the minds of our ancient ancestors are the images they painted on the walls of caves ...

An international team of researchers has identified two leg bones found in the Penghu Channel, Taiwan, as belonging to ...

A 476,000-year-old wooden structure found at Kalambo Falls shows ancient hominins shaped and joined wood long before Homo sapiens appeared. For decades, the archaeological record of early humans has ...

Mysterious human bones dredged from the seafloor between Taiwan and the Penghu Islands several years ago are providing new insights into the appearance—and the large size—of one of the last ancient ...