Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued ...

More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

A team’s investigation of ancient human burials in Israel’s Tinshemet Cave has revealed evidence that Homo sapiens and our nearest cousins, the Neanderthals, intermingled in ancient times ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...