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

Roughly 50,000 years ago, two species of humans met in the shadow of Eurasian ice sheets. One, Homo sapiens, had just ...

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

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.

Neanderthals were humans who went extinct between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago. Though there is some debate about who these people were, there is no question that there are none left.

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.

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 ...

Some researchers believe that modern humans are at least in part the product of non-African species descended from Homo habilis, which left Africa at least 1.5 million years ago.

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 ...

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 ...