Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued ...

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

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ... Overview of the rock shelter from the ...

Neanderthals first appeared around 250,000 years ago, evolving from earlier European populations known as “pre-Neanderthals,” which lived across Eurasia between 500,000 and 250,000 years ago. For a ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

Neanderthal population, a species that thrived in Eurasia for over 250,000 years, experienced a dramatic decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Recent studies indicate that this ...

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