A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

co-lead author of the Science paper and a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

In fact, people have been making very similar statements about their bodies for about 3,000 years. In a new study published in iScience, researchers catalogued words for body parts and emotions used ...

Man’s best friend may have emerged in the Americas about 2,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a study led ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited ...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where ...

Researchers found that people worldwide live 9.6 years longer than they are healthy — and in the U.S. the gap is more than 12 ...

lead author of the study, commented, "This is the oldest genome of modern humans, and it represents a lineage that no longer ...

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When homo sapiens migrated out of Africa to Eurasia in pre-history, we met Neanderthals and bred over a period of about 7,000 ...