Thanks to AI developments, we are witnessing a dramatic increase in the pace and scalability of genomic techniques, which ...

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest ever human footprints from 115,000 years ago and they shouldn't be there ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

This finding suggests that Homo sapiens had a taste for starch much before the domestication of crops shaped the human diet.

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

After humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, we started having sex with Neanderthals – a now extinct archaic but closely-related species. Now, scientists claim to have ...

But the details of that evolutionary history have remained unclear. How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

Thanks to new AI developments, we are witnessing an increase in the pace of genomic techniques, but shall we try the AI ...