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They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

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

A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first crossed paths. The discovery places the two ancient human species not in the ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Humans have been missing the mark since the beginning of their evolution, and the key to remedying this is to recognize the ...

Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding the ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large head people," are believed to have lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 years ...