This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

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

Similarities observed in both modern and archaic human genomes suggest many hallmarks of the Homo sapiens genetic landscape arose before the lineages split.

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have smaller faces that stop growing sometime during adolescence.

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 ...

These early modern humans were part of a pioneer population that eventually disappeared, making them a “lost branch” of the human family tree. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

When modern humans left Africa and interbred with Neanderthals, some individuals inherited Neanderthal genes that presumably allowed them to adapt and thrive better in the environment,” said Leonardo ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.

Much of Neanderthal genetic diversity came from modern humans Neanderthals' low diversity means their population was even smaller than we thought.