A new method of analyzing modern humans' DNA is revealing secrets about our extinct ancestors.

A new study provides quantitative data on cranial vault thickness in Homo antecessor, based on the analysis of three parietal ...

Two species of humans occupied the same small cave in southern Türkiye across a span of roughly 20,000 years, and the stone tools and shell beads they left behind look strikingly alike. Neanderthals ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

The basic outline of the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals is now well established. The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred ...

Finds from caves in Turkey and Israel hint that different types of humans exchanged ideas even as they remained biologically distinct. | Credit: Naoki Morimoto. Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's ...

But did our direct ancestors interbreed with other long-lost hominin lineages before the first major migrations out of Africa ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...