This recombination helped form the modern human genome. Though the smaller group contributed only 20% of the genetic material, its role was critical in areas like brain development.

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

A new study found that a gene passed down from extinct archaic humans provided an adaptive advantage for Indigenous people of ...

But, one group was left isolated genetically for thousands of years, as was recently found with the discovery of two 7,000-year-old mummies that did not share DNA with modern humans.

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

Human fossils have been found at the site dating to 68,000-86,000 years ago, for the first time putting Homo sapiens in the area on a timescale similar to the oldest evidence from Australia.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large head people," are believed to have lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 ...

Archaeologists discovered stone tools at least a million years old on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, but exactly who made ...

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