Relatives of hostages held by Hamas voiced cautious optimism after listening to U.S. President Donald Trump presenting his Gaza plan following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

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President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents appeared to make little progress at a White House meeting aimed at heading off a government shutdown that could disrupt a wide range of services as ...

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Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that could rewrite the timeline of human evolution.

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Sixty-five million years ago, tiny primates clung to survival in the shadows of dinosaurs’ extinction. Today, their descendants command the planet. This is the improbable, awe-inspiring saga of human ...