According to some experts, six human species existed simultaneously around 60,000 years ago. They were Neanderthals, ...

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

The Homo sapiens fossils found beneath Ranis Castle in central Germany were already the oldest evidence of our species in northern Europe. Now, these ancient German fossils have torn up the timeline ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species smaller than a house cat from an ancient cave in ...

However, to reliably trace modern human evolution, categorizations need to be made about anatomical and geographical ... calling for a more nuanced chronological and evolutionary contextualisation of ...

Two groundbreaking studies have pinpointed when ancient humans and Neanderthals interbred, with both research teams concluding the mixing occurred around 47,000 years ago. The research, published in ...

The findings help pin down dates for out-of-Africa migration and the dispersal of Homo sapiens. A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined ...

One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes so far sequenced ... which together cover the past 50,000 years of human evolution, suggest Neanderthal DNA was already well and truly ...