Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ...

Another hypothesis suggested early modern humans migrated from Africa via a land bridge at the southern end of the Red Sea, across the Bab el Mandeb (Arabic for "Gate of Grief") a ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

And we were not sure if they are modern humans, if they’re Neanderthals, and what kind of human they could be. And we sequenced the DNA, and—yeah—to our surprise, we, first of all ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

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 ...