Anthropology

A new analysis of shoes that may have belonged to the Renaissance artist Michelangelo revealed his small stature.

Ancient DNA from a woman who lived 7,200 years ago reveal she belongs to a vanished human lineage.

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare instance of Neanderthal-created art in a German cave once famous for its "unicorn bones."

"The Boy of Gran Dolina," a young individual in the extinct Homo antecessor species found at a site in Spain, is actually female, according to new analysis of dental remains.

Early members of the genus Homo didn't have advanced brains.

Some human ancestors are known only as "ghost" populations.

Changes previously thought to be sex differences in a human relative are actually due to microevolution, a new study finds.

A new paper used an advanced "Bayesian" model to show that the emergence of intelligent life on Earth was probably a lucky break.

These are the most complete articulated Neanderthal remains to be found in more than 25 years.