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

And the individuals in the cave in Ranis were among the first Homo sapiens to live in Europe. One woman - who lived 143 miles away in Zlatý kůň in the Czech Republicic - was also an early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

sapiens — distributed around Africa ... Australopithecus emerged as Ardipithecus was disappearing; Paranthropus and the first Homo species appeared in Africa about 3 million years ago, as ...

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 ...

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 ...