Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Homo sapiens, that has since gone extinct. So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which didn't exist back when many early hominins were first discovered ...

Lost branch of the human family tree The individuals who called the cave in Ranis home were among the first Homo sapiens to live in Europe. These early Europeans numbered a few hundred and ...

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 ...

These conversations about whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were separate species might seem fairly esoteric. But when it comes to figuring out our past it can have a profound influence. If we can ...

Neanderthals, one of humanity's relatives, left Africa about 400,000 years ago and first settled in Eurasia. They are ...

Lost branch of the human family tree The individuals who called the cave in Ranis home were among the first Homo sapiens to live in Europe. These early Europeans numbered a few hundred and ...

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 ...

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