Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

For modern homo sapiens, death is a technical problem, and for every technical problem there is a technical solution ...

Despite the existence of just one species today, Homo sapiens, investigations at ancient sites may uncover a new species.

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

They have both ancient and modern traits – a finding that could challenge ‘out of Africa’ theory of human evolution, ...

A study suggests that by the time H. sapiens expanded, the differentiation between the two species had progressed to the ...

Although there may be some earlier evidence of ritual practices by modern humans, such as the 40,000-year-old "lion man" ...

The research looked at the oldest DNA ever recovered and concluded that we and our are very genetically similar to our ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns ...