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

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

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

Neanderthal and homo sapiens mated, but it was mostly only the men of the former species with the females of the latter. This explains a major DNA problem that scientists have noticed in the human ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

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

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...

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 ...

At several archaeological sites in southern Africa, hundreds of highly unusual fragments of ostrich eggs have been found.

HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East Asia of the evolutionary transition toward Homo sapiens, the species to which ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...