The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

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Neanderthals were intelligent, strong, and skilled early humans. From tool-making to burial rituals, discover 10 fascinating facts about our extinct relatives and their lasting legacy.

Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.