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

Artifacts found in Santa Elina are roughly 27,000 years old — more than 10,000 years before scientists once thought that ...

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 ...

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

unearthing a mysterious and extinct branch of the human family tree. These early Homo sapiens arrived over 45,000 years ago, intermixed with Neanderthals, and left no surviving descendants. The ...

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 ...

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.” ...