New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, and those genes still impact our health today. Scientists think they've figured out when the two groups started interbreeding and swapping DNA.

When modern humans emerged from Africa, ... What's more, previous research has found similarities in facial features between ...

Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height. ... they found 32 gene regions that influence facial features like nose, lip, jaw, and brow shape.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal ...

Deep within the genome of modern day humans lie trace amounts of the DNA of a long-lost relative: the Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis).They lived about 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, and are the ...

In a related study from 2021, researchers relied on data from the 6,000 subjects to identify 32 modern gene regions related to facial features, including nine they declared as new discoveries. They ...

However, researchers know less about how modern human DNA may have entered the Neanderthal genome. That's largely because there are currently only three known high-quality examples of a complete ...

Neanderthals’ impressive journey east logged upwards of 2,000 miles, but based on the range of their fossils and the tools they left behind, they didn’t make it far beyond Eurasia. Humans instead came ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...