Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs. Each species of human relative (hominin) was a neat, single branch.As an ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...