Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

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

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...