Ancient DNA research suggests that our non-African ancestors mixed with Neandertals about 50,000 years ago, resulting in one ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

DNA from bones and teeth of these early human ancestors is helping scientists understand the interactions between early Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals they encountered after migrating out of ...

According to Reed, this was a game-changing moment for our ancestors. The traditional timeline of early human history might suggest that clothing emerged as a practical tool in response to cold ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...

Using imaging technology and data that was not available at the time the skulls were found, researchers were able to make some remarkable observations on the age of the skulls and their significance ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature, presents the oldest known modern human genome ever sequenced of a small group of about seven early Europeans who had just recently mixed with ...