Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals ...

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Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

A new modeling study suggests that increased connectivity between Homo sapiens groups may have been decisive in their ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “This is what it might have looked like at Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago,” Flavio Altamura, a fellow at the Senckenberg Centre for ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...