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.

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

Gracile Humans This early slowdown is one piece of a broader evolutionary trend known as gracilization — the tendency for modern humans to become more delicate in form.

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

The team’s method relied on analysing modern human DNA, rather than extracting genetic material from ancient bones, and enabled them to infer the presence of ancestral populations that may have ...

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 ...

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

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.

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

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 ...