The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

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

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

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

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split ...

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.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!