WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

For years, geneticists have wrestled with a curious absence: many modern people carry Neanderthal DNA, yet large stretches of the human X chromosome are almost empty of it. A new study argues that ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hominin skull shape animation gif. The origin of our species, Homo sapiens, has puzzled paleoanthropologists for generations — and ...

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Prehistoric encounters with lead may have influenced the wiring of the human brain and helped Homo sapiens outpace their archaic cousins, according to a new publictaion in Science Advances. The ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...