Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

The basic outline of the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals is now well established. The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Move aside, Neanderthals, new suitors of modern humans have been discovered from the Altai Mountains of Siberia. These suitors are the Denisovans, whose interbreeding with modern humans apparently ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

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