New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

While the Neanderthals died out some 40,000 years ago, their genetic footprint lives on. When early modern humans migrated out of Africa and encountered them, interbreeding occurred. As a result, ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

Genetic research shows Neanderthals carried variants for red hair, freckles, and pale skin, while others had darker complexions. Populations living further north evolved lighter tones for vitamin D ...

Now, using ancient DNA extracted from a pair of European Neanderthals, scientists are getting a more detailed picture of the species’ journey across our prehistoric planet. These discoveries add even ...

Without DNA, it will be impossible to prove that the child was a ... Were the parents of the child also interbred? Or was one Neanderthal and the other Homo sapien? Why was the child, or anyone else, ...

Scientists have uncovered 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara that appear to belong to a mysterious lineage unlike any seen ...

Earlier analysis of DNA in the modern human and Neanderthal genomes suggested that the two species interbred between 50,500 and 43,500 years ago. The new findings could push back this genetic mingling ...

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In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...