The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ...

The Homo sapiens genome today contains a little ... Scientists have recovered copies of the full male and female Neanderthal genomes, thanks to DNA from well-preserved bones and teeth of ...

Both the Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago. While Neanderthal DNA accounts for around 2 percent of the genome of non-African modern humans ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left ... Both theories have their staunch defenders who cite DNA evidence - analysis of the genetic blueprint ...

Gibraltar 1 has recently been sampled for ancient DNA, with the results ... Gibraltar 1, the first adult female Neanderthal skull ever discovered The final part of the gallery explores how our species ...

Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at ... Perhaps Neanderthals were unable to cope with competition for resources from incoming groups of Homo sapiens. Ancient DNA began to be ...

For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group ... one group contributed about 80% of modern human DNA, and the other, only 20%. Traditionally, scientists ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...