The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

The lack of mitochondrial DNA (inherited from mother to child) from Neanderthals present in living humans might be evidence that only male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens could successfully mate.

New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in their blood groups after leaving Africa, between 70,000 and 45,000 years ago, before spreading across Eurasia.

Archaeologists have uncovered intriguing similarities between the behavior of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, one of our closest extinct relatives.. In a study published in the Journal of ...

Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interbreeding. We know that our species interbred with Neanderthals since our relatives' first genomes were sequenced. However, the Neanderthal genes we have in us today ...

One group of scientists examined genomes from three female and three male Homo sapiens individuals who lived around 45,000 years ago based on bones found in a cave at the German town of Ranis, and ...

Discovered in 1868, Cro-Magnon 1 was among the first fossils to be recognized as belonging to our own species—Homo sapiens. This famous fossil skull is from one of several modern human skeletons found ...

The titular Eve is broken out into multiple Eves, each one representing a crucial evolutionary element of the female Homo sapien body—Morgie (a nickname for a species found in Wales that lived ...

This reconstruction of a female Neanderthal was made using ancient DNA evidence. ... But a closer look reveals the characteristics that differentiate our ancient ancestors from modern Homo sapiens.

How the Neanderthals died out remains one of the biggest mysteries in human evolution. A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by ...

In a new study, scientists at Aix-Marseille University in France sequenced the genome of 22 H. sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia, dating between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, to understand ...