While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...

Neanderthals, formally called Homo neanderthalensis, were more robustly built than Homo sapiens and had larger brows. They lived from around 430,000 years ago until their disappearance relatively ...

When modern humans first ventured out of Africa, they followed in the footsteps of another human species who dared leave before them. Eventually our bold ancestors caught up with their Neanderthal ...

Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens," said Bae in a press statement released by University of Hawai‘i. The research paper suggests a connection between Homo juluensis and Denisovans ...

Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens.” The Denisovians may be a member of H. juluensis. In 2010, the DNA of a young girl associated with this group was analyzed from Siberia using her bones.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...