Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

New research sheds light on Denisovans: chronology of Denisova Cave, sedimentary DNA, and genetic legacy in Asia and Oceania.

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who ...

Scientists know little about Denisovans, a now-extinct relative of humans. But a gene inherited from these hominins may have ...

139,547 HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic – Beyond Neanderthals: Ancient DNA and the Denisovans In a cave in southern Siberia, DNA reveals that Neanderthals once spent time there, along with another ...

The lead paper in Nature reports on the sequencing of 137 ancient human genomes spanning a steppe-sized slice of history, from about 2500 B.C. to the 16th century. The genomes came from the width and ...

The Inuit arrived in Greenland several hundred years earlier than previously believed, according to a study that mapped the ...

LEIPZIG, Germany, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Analysis of the oldest genetic material ever recovered from an early human shows an unexpected twist in the path of human evolution, German scientists say.