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

Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based ...

Reviewing all the existing data on archaic human introgression into the modern human genome, the authors of a new study explain that because Homo sapiens ... that admixture had important ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

The alternative view is that the capacity for modern human behavior is coincident with the origins of Homo sapiens, and that the expression of this capacity in the archaeological record was an ...