Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

The interbreeding event contributed around 20% of modern human DNA, with these genes predominantly found in regions ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

These individuals are considered to be a key link between earlier species like Homo erectus and later species ... capabilities of Homo heidelbergensis. DNA extraction from the bones has also ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

Unlike Neanderthal DNA, which makes up roughly 2% of the genome of non-African ... Fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in Africa and other ...

Scientists have found that 20% of our DNA may come from a mysterious ancestor, according to WP. This discovery changes how we ...

That project collected DNA sequences from around the world between 2008 and ... Fossil evidence shows that Homo Erectus and Homo heidelbergensis both occupied Africa and other areas during the correct ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...