A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

What can archaic introgression tell us about archaic humans and about ourselves? Every person alive today inherited some portion of their genomes from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...