But the details of that evolutionary history have remained unclear. How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct ...

However, new research shows that humans that interbred with Neanderthals went on to thrive, whereas other bloodlines died out. Genes passed on to humans from Neanderthals were in fact crucial to ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

determining that "Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago." At the same time, researchers for the Nature study discovered a "new line of evidence by ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer ... Thus, all living Homo sapiens have the potential to breed with each other, but could not successfully interbreed with gorillas or chimpanzees, ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about our ancient past: modern humans didn’t come from just one ancestral group, ...

Denisovan - an extinct human relative of both Neanderthals and modern humans that lived across Asia. They are named after Denisova Cave in Russia, where the first finger bone was found.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...