Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Oldest hybrid found: Protein analysis from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus fossils shows interbreeding with Denisovans, marking the earliest known human hybridization. Evolutionary impact: The discovery ...

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A recent study published by the University of California, Berkeley has identified genetic traces of two previously unknown hominin species within the DNA of modern humans. The discovery was made ...