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

2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ... More Evidence That Europe's Ancient ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

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 ...

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

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 ...

These early humans numbered only a few hundred and had dark skin, dark hair, and brown eyes, reflecting their recent migration from Africa. Despite surviving in extreme cold conditions and adapting ...

They also examined bone fragments from an early human population in Ranis, Germany, about 140 miles away. They found snippets of Neanderthal DNA that placed the mating around 45,000 years ago.

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.” ...