To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...

A detailed analysis of these remnants was used to recreate the climate and activity of a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...

At first it was just too cold this far north ... For thousands of years the presence of modern humans in Britain remained brief and sporadic. It has only been continuous since about 12,000 years ago.

The research for the first time pinpoints a short period 48,000 years ago when Homo sapiens interbred ... Prof Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, in Germany, told BBC ...

Those first modern humans that had interbred with Neanderthals and lived alongside them died out completely in Europe 40,000 years ago - but not before their offspring had spread further out into ...

About 45,000 years ago, those first modern humans ventured into Europe, having made their way up through the Middle East. Their own DNA suggests they had dark skin and perhaps light eyes.

the dominant 'out of Africa' hypothesis on human origin has long maintained that modern humans first appeared in southern Africa only around 50,000 years ago — hundreds of years after the 'Dali ...