Shocking DNA findings pulled from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history.

He has helped show that human groups—southern Africans ... Paabo now wants to re-create the entire DNA sequence of a Neanderthal and compare it with our own, looking for the reasons that ...

The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. “Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Around 250,000 years ago, early humans in Africa started heading towards the cooler climes of Eurasia. There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

I’ve read both that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and that they didn’t. Which is it? Robert Redinger, Grant, Michigan There is evidence that they did, in a limited way, says ...