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.

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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.