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

DNA evidence suggests homo sapiens women more often paired with Neanderthal men, helping explain why Neanderthal genes are rare.

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

Ancient bones reveal that early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals didn’t just coexist. For years, scientists argued about whether Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthal groups in Europe. The Oase fossils ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred. About ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A groundbreaking international study has uncovered the oldest physical evidence of ...

The film portrays two distinct groups of hominids. There are the titular Croods, knuckle-dragging neanderthals, and there are the Bettermans, whose name is a not-so-subtle implication that they are an ...

Modern humans were not always the dominant species on Earth. For tens of thousands of years, Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species that were stronger, faster, and better adapted to ...

In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...