Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

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

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

These findings suggest that somewhere in Africa, early modern humans developed this mutation, which then spread rapidly across populations, enabling the foundation of human speech. The fact that ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

It's currently unknown if these burials belong to early modern humans, human-Neanderthal hybrids, the mysterious other lineage or another group entirely. "The discoveries at Tinshemet Cave are ...

They are the first members of the human family known ... The face is more "projected forward and more robust" than a modern human face or a Homo antecessor face, Maria Martinon-Torres, director ...