Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Homo sapiens evolved through a series of significant genetic events ... For Event 2, when modern humans diverged from ...

BAFFLED scientists have unearthed the world’s oldest human DNA in Europe – with a key part of our history and family tree ...

Professor Chris Stringer, an expert in human evolution at the Natural History Museum who was not involved in the study, says that this changes our understanding of many ancient human fossils. “This ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

“Speciation is a process, in which one parent species creates categorically different descendant species,” explains Chris. “In the context of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, we need to regard ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...

11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be considered ... from ecology and biotech to health and history. Her work has appeared ...