For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young child, buried around 140,000 years ago at Skhul Cave in Israel, was found to ...

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.

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.

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

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 ...

Neanderthal (left) and modern human skulls. Credit: John Reader/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Photo: John Reader/Science Photo Library/Getty Images . Despite our apparent ability and desire ...

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 ...

A comparison of the genomes of a Neanderthal who lived 120,000 years ago in Siberia with those from modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa has revealed insight into the migratory and interbreeding ...

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 ...