Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

New research reveals that gene flow from Neanderthals has left a lasting imprint on modern human genomes. Non-African ...

We know throughout history that the size of modern humans and extinct human species—a collective group known as ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

By 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, modern humans were migrating into the same region, where they met the southern Denisovan branch and co-existed long enough to interbreed.

The project, conducted by a dozen scientists from three continents, claims that the mother of all modern humans living today — from New Zealand to New York — originated in this region of ...

Neanderthals went extinct 30,000 years ago, taking their precious genetic material with them. But their DNA lives on in their hybrid ancestors: modern-day humans.

Early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals An early European had a close Neanderthal ancestor Date: June 22, 2015 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ...

A modernized human wouldn’t get hungry so easily, and might find calorie-dense foods such as sugar and lipids aversive, instead of delicious. Drugs and alcohol are another cause of a great deal of ill ...

Neanderthals were living in northern Europe for more than 500,000 years by the time that modern humans began to arrive. A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied bone fragments and stone ...

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However, researchers know less about how modern human DNA may have entered the Neanderthal genome. That's largely because there are currently only three known high-quality examples of a complete ...