Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens. By analyzing traces of DNA left behind by ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

The background — Here’s what we do know: Modern humans appeared in Europe at least 45,000 years ago Neanderthals disappeared from Europe around 40,000 years ago What’s not well-understood is ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

Instead, various traits we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic evolution” that Neanderthals also seem to have exhibited. Modern humankind “wasn ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Recent fossil evidence suggests modern humans and Neanderthals may have co-existed for as long as 6,000 years. But currently, it is difficult to establish when the two species first appeared and ...

The Role of Global Networks in Human Evolution What has changed are the increasingly larger and more global networks in which we live. “Much of the difference between our ancient, simple ...

While the exact details are unclear, he explained, the prevailing belief for the last 20 years has been that modern humans first appeared in Africa some 200,000–300,000 years ago, descended from ...

Neanderthals and modern humans interbred for several millennia ... Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Killgrove holds postgraduate degrees ...

Importantly, these SNVs appeared to have arisen after the common ... and the most recent common ancestor of all modern human Y chromosomes, dating to around 338,000 years ago.