Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes so far sequenced, which were more than 42,000 years old, and revealed the individuals likely had dark skin, dark hair and brown eyes.

The researchers found that it came from a single wave of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal baby-making between 45,000 and 49,000 years ago, almost certainly in the Middle East, the scientists said at a ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new ...

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A new genetic analysis of the earliest known modern human remains found in Ranis in Germany and Zlatý kůň in the Czech Republic suggests emigrant Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis mingled some ...

According to some experts, six human species existed simultaneously around 60,000 years ago. They were Neanderthals, ...