Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

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

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

It's currently unknown if these burials belong to early modern humans, human-Neanderthal hybrids, the mysterious other ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...