New archaeological studies at Tam Pà Ling cave in Laos provide insights into the lives of early Homo sapiens, showing how ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders ...

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

Archaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that coastal and underwater cave sites ...

Neanderthals incorporated human genes, and their offspring remained within Neanderthal groups. These early mating episodes resulted from small groups of pioneering Homo sapiens migrating out of ...

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

Humans may have developed advanced social behaviours and trade 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. This is according to a series of papers published today in Science. The results come ...

Modern humans began to edge out the Neanderthals ... The upper date for the Bacho Kiro remains is older than previous evidence of early Homo sapiens settlement from Kents Cavern in Britain ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

According to one view, modern human form preceded the appearance ... For example, early European representatives of Homo sapiens can be distinguished morphologically from preceding and ...

including human fossils, were deposited within the cave," says Associate Professor Morley. "How early Homo sapiens came to be buried deep within the cave has long been debated, but our sediment ...