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

DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared ...

When modern humans first ventured out of Africa, they followed in the footsteps of another human species who dared leave ...

“These results provide us with a deeper understanding of the earliest pioneers that settled in Europe,” says Johannes Krause, ...

A new fossil discovery, Anadoluvius turkae, suggests human ancestors evolved in Europe, not Africa, challenging traditional ...

A new exhibition revisits the continent's contributions to humanity's evolution and culture and looks into the insights provided by archaeology.

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has sequenced the oldest ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...