Findings challenge traditional models that attribute certain genetic innovations exclusively to modern Homo sapiens ... of archaic admixture signatures to partition the human genome and trace ...

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,” stated Aylwyn Scally of Cambridge University. That sums up the ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined ... At that time, only five archaic Homo sapiens genomes were ...

We’ve known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...

When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning ...

Most genetic data indicates that modern humans ... and other archaic humans, including Denisovans, were more frequent than previously believed since the emergence of Homo sapiens about 250,000 ...

A number of 300,000-year-old human fossils from Hualongdong ... been identified as the earliest archaic humans in East Asia to transition toward modern Homo sapiens. The site has provided ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human ... "admixture" started around 50,000 years ago, and ended around 7,000 years later. One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human ... of burials by modern humans. The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around ...

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens ... modern humans coexisting with Neanderthals and ...