Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

resulting in significant Neanderthal genetic ancestry getting archived in Homo sapiens population. The papers deepen the discussion by refining the timeline of interbreeding to approximately ...

These studies not only enhance our understanding of human evolution but also provide ... made strides in dating some of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils. Recent geochemical analyses have ...

There is little or no evidence that the two human cousins fought with each other. However, one provocative hypothesis is that Neandertals, when they were alone in Europe and Asia, cannibalized each ...

Previous research has frequently concluded that only Homo sapiens were able to adapt to such environments. Julio Mercader, Paul Durkin, and colleagues collected archaeological, geological ...

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert landscape once considered off limits before Homo sapiens came along.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

This is the process of evolution in its simplest form ... Rudolph Zallinger's famous 1965 Time-Life illustration "The Road to Homo Sapiens" shows humans evolving in a stepwise fashion from ...