Explore the complex 2-million-year journey of human evolution. From the Handy Man in Africa to the interbreeding of ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Newly discovered fossils of Masripithecus moghraensis suggest early apes may have evolved farther north than previously ...

At some point before our ancestors left Africa, they interbred with this unknown species, contributing to a long and complicated series of affairs between separate hominin lineages. The rest of this ...

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago. New research on available Neanderthal genetic ...

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

For years, scientists noticed that modern humans carry very little Neanderthal DNA on their X chromosomes. To understand why, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reversed the perspective ...

Interbreeding between Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is presented as a network rather than a simple branching tree. Fossils and genetic evidence are used to show repeated hybridization ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...