A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

A new study has found that Neanderthals bred with our human ancestors some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

According to Akey, our ancestors branched off from Neanderthals roughly 600,000 years ago. Around 250,000 years ago, early humans began to show signs of the traits we now consider modern.

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

A team’s investigation of ancient human burials in Israel’s Tinshemet Cave has revealed evidence that Homo sapiens and our nearest cousins, the Neanderthals, intermingled in ancient times ...

Humans and Neanderthals are virtually identical at the genetic level. Scientists are probing the differences to understand why we are here, and they aren’t. Scientists have a new clue in the ...

Neanderthals could have migrated east and reached what’s now China, or a different species of ancient human possibly made stone tools uncannily similar to those being made in Europe during this ...

The species flourished from roughly 350,000 to 40,000 years ago, and studies indicate they and modern humans may have gone their separate ways as long as 800,000 years ago. Increasing evidence has ...