Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...