Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of early ...

Recent research on ancient genomes spanning 50,000 years has shed light on the interactions between early modern humans and Neanderthals. Two major studies published in Nature and Science reveal ...

Unearthed in 2022 at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossil belongs to Homo erectus or a close ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

Humans once had a way smaller footprint. "Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa," says Arev Sümer, a paleogenetics PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ...

Research into hundreds of genomes spanning 50,000 years of human history indicates that early modern humans and Neanderthals interbred in a relatively narrow time window, shedding light on the ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except ...

The research provides insights into the demographics of early modern humans. Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of early ...

After modern humans left Africa, they met and interbred with Neandertals, resulting in around two to three percent Neandertal DNA that can be found in the genomes of all people outside Africa today.