Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study published in the journal l'Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known example of human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cranium of a child discovered at the Skhul Cave site looked like that of a Homo sapiens skull. - Tel Aviv University In a ...

Neanderthal males had a tendency to mate with human females, new research suggests.

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts ...

Many people have a tiny slice of Neanderthal DNA, evidence of interbreeding between the species and ancient human ancestors. Two new studies suggest that interbreeding occurred during a limited period ...

A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them adapt to new environments as they ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...