Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

Researchers claim that they have discovered an entirely new form of ancient human and it has a bigger brain than any we've ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

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Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...