In Yolo County, about 50% of people placed on a “5150 hold” — referring to an involuntary 72-hour hospitalization — were ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services ...

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.

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

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

Learn more about the reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium, and about what it might mean for the history of three human lineages: Homo longi, Homo sapiens, and Homo neanderthalensis.

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.