Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

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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 ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...

Early stereotypes that Chinese regions were ... The diversity within these fossils reflects the complexity of human evolution ...

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

"It's really important because it does constrain quite a few other things about human migration patterns," says Peter, ...

New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

Over this 7,000-year time frame, early humans encountered Neanderthals ... enabled the authors to refine our understanding of human migration and Neanderthal introgression.” ...