Ever since the discovery of the first Neanderthal skeletons in the mid-19th century ... The more recent addition of the Denisovans to the human family tree has further complicated matters ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

For several millennia, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred shortly after all ... The research team examined the genomes of six skeletons that were found at a site called Ilsenhöhle in ...

But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. And even today humans are left with some Neanderthal genes, many of ...

He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from Paviland in Wales (the ... Their faces are really alive.' Early modern humans were taller and less stocky than Neanderthals, perhaps more ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

In 1998, the skeleton of a 29,000-year-old child was discovered in the Lapedo valley in Portugal. The child had early modern human and Neanderthal features such as the chin and lower arms of a ...

Discover some of the oldest remnants left by archaic humans: stone tools, art objects, cave paintings, and skeletons that have revolutionised our understanding of Neanderthals and our early human ...