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.

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human ...

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.

Specifically, Cann and colleagues hypothesized that the ancestress of all of modern humanity lived only 200,000 years ago, rather than more than a million years ago, when primitive humans first ...

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.

First Family: toe bones Toe bones found among the First Family are long compared to those of humans, but they don't curve forward toward the heel as they do in modern tree-climbing primates.

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 ...