The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

The analyses raise questions. Other work suggests Homo sapiens arrived in some places before the interbreeding dates indicated, yet the Neanderthal DNA concerned is ubiquitous outside Africa.

The new date for the child is consistent with original estimates for the age of the burial, but it has changed our ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...

And we sequenced the DNA, and—yeah—to our surprise ... which is that we had learned that there had been admixture between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. But you’re finding that this is ...

The story of Neanderthals is written in bones, genes, and evolutionary shifts that span hundreds of thousands of years. These ancient humans left behind a wealth of fossil evidence, yet their origins, ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

From the deserts of Africa to the icy frontiers of Antarctica, humans have left their mark on every continent. But how and ...