Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

"Wolf Man" writer-director Leigh Whannell told UPI he wanted his modern re-imagining of the classic Universal Pictures ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart from our ancient counterparts.

About 650,000 years ago, modern humans diverged from Neanderthals and Denisovans. Interbreeding events have occurred more than once, providing opportunities for shared genetic traits. At least one ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans ...

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has sequenced the oldest known genomes of modern humans. These belong to seven individuals who lived ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins ...