Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals ...

We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...

On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig reported on studies revealing that modern ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

Researchers claim that they have discovered an entirely new form of ancient human and it has a bigger brain than any we've ...

New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

Their genomes revealed evidence of Neanderthal ancestry, meaning that early Homo sapiens living in the region mated with ...