Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Witness the incredible journey of our species! From simple beginnings to the sophisticated beings we are today, human ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens reached a zenith of interbreeding 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that is still evident in a ...

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

Despite the existence of just one species today, Homo sapiens, investigations at ancient sites may uncover a new species.

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.

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 ...

For decades, fossils from this region that didn't fit neatly into categories like Homo erectus or Homo sapiens were often ... a far more diverse evolutionary history of ancient human forms than ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...