Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

New discoveries are rewriting human evolution faster than ever before. From Denisovan–Neanderthal hybrids to 175,000-year-old underground structures built without sunlight, the old “caveman” ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

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 ...

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

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...