The Neanderthal DNA in East Asians today can be traced back to interactions between Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe 45,000 years ago. The oldest known remains of modern humans in ...

The modern human DNA sequences in the Altai Neanderthal appear to derive from a modern human group that separated early from other humans, "about the time present-day African populations diverged from ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...

“They redefine the concept of Homo sapiens by creating this category of ‘early modern humans’ that I’ve never seen before.” While Hawks applauds the researchers for their careful re ...

In the modern context of perpetual abundance ... Maybe, once we brought them up to speed on spaceships and crème brûlées and what not, those early humans would even see in our world something of ...

Misconception: Modern humans invented culture. Misconception: Human evolution is linear and progressive. Misconception: We’re descended from apes. Misconception: Early humans hunted dinosaurs.

Since the emergence of early humans and modern humans, about 27 proboscidean species have gone extinct, Torsten Hauffe, an ecologist at the University of Fribourg and Swiss Institute of ...