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

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on DNA of early ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human migration, researchers have found evidence that the first Aboriginal peoples arrived in ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

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

This is the earliest record of humans using fire to shape the Tasmanian environment. Early human migrations from Africa to the southern part of the globe were well underway during the early part o ...

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

Ancient DNA research suggests that our non-African ancestors mixed with Neandertals about 50,000 years ago, resulting in one ...

Researchers determined that the early humans who lived in Ranis and ... that enabled the authors to refine our understanding of human migration and Neanderthal introgression.” ...

The research offers a rare glimpse into the continent’s earliest humans and their links to Neanderthal in Europe.