M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

The research also highlights that earlier Homo sapiens population in Europe (and beyond) was highly structured, where most of ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

We’ve known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago.In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...