Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

New research sheds light on Denisovans: chronology of Denisova Cave, sedimentary DNA, and genetic legacy in Asia and Oceania.

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who ...

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe ...

A mysterious DNA marker is rewriting everything we thought we knew about how humans first reached the Americas. Haplogroup X, ...

To figure out when our ancient human ancestors hooked up with Neanderthals, the researchers compared stretches of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes. Individuals from about 40,000 years ago had long ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But ...

While most people think of fossils and artifacts as the most important lines of evidence for understanding the past, genetic evidence also plays a major role. In this webinar, Miguel Vilar, Genetic ...

139,547 HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic – Beyond Neanderthals: Ancient DNA and the Denisovans In a cave in southern Siberia, DNA reveals that Neanderthals once spent time there, along with another ...

S cientists have decoded the world’s oldest human DNA sequence, beating the previous record by almost 300,000 years, and at the same time confusing what we know of our early relatives.