Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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.

Explore the origins of human language and its capacity dating back at least 135,000 years, reshaping how we interact.

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

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

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.

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.

If interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals did happen in the Levant, "and I agree it seems increasingly likely, then somewhere there must be actual first-generation Neanderthal ...