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

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ...

The Denisovan chunk of DNA appeared at the highest frequencies within the genomes of 23 ancient Indigenous American ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

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 ...

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

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

Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global ...