A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

Clarifying that timeline narrows the possible range ... How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct, and why did modern ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

With minimal Neanderthal archaeological sites connecting Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it had long been a mystery as to how ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding between ...

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Clarifying that timeline narrows the possible range ... How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct, and why did modern ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred ...

The fresh dating timeline puts the remains roughly 40,000 ... Child remains shows that remains of a child with both human and Neanderthal features was from tens of thousands of years after when ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...