Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and skull ...

From the sound of traffic to spending too much time on your smartphone, there are plenty of things in the modern world that can give you a headache. But scientists now say that some people's pounding ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A series of lower jaws from North Africa demonstrates variation among hominin fossils. The jaw on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mandible of an archaic human who lived about 773 000 years ago is pictured after being excavated at a cave called Grotte a ...

The split between modern humans and our sister species would have happened far earlier than previously believed. That would leave Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans potentially existing on the ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, ...