Surviving Neanderthal genes in the modern genome tell a story of thousands of years of interactions. Recent DNA studies have ...

Africans. 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 ...

A number of 300,000-year-old human fossils from Hualongdong ... been identified as the earliest archaic humans in East Asia to transition toward modern Homo sapiens. The site has provided ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human ... "admixture" started around 50,000 years ago, and ended around 7,000 years later. One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes ...

For decades, paleoanthropologists have tried to figure out how hominins were evolving prior to the arrival of modern humans ... like "archaic H. sapiens" and "Middle Pleistocene Homo," and ...

Neanderthals, who were a group of archaic humans that ... more and more modern traits are being traced back to the time when early humans, Homo sapiens, paired up with their cousins.

Ancient DNA helps reveal the tangled branches of the human family tree ... and has provided the first direct evidence of Homo sapiens having lived there.