Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Although more extensive sampling of Neandertals is obviously desirable, the current sequences indicate that the diversity of Neandertals was restricted. Thus, it is highly unlikely that a ...

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.

Though I am broadly interested in hominin evolution and the whole of the Palaeolithic/Stone Age period, my research has mainly been focussed on Neandertals and the Middle Palaeolithic of Western ...