An unknown ancestor mated with ancient humans. Its DNA is found in living people to this day
Whenever distinct groups of humans and their ancestors overlapped in space and time, interbreeding was just around the corner.
Tag: homo sapiens
Humans, not Neanderthals created oldest modern artifacts in Europe
These were the hi-tech gadgets of the Upper Paleolithic
‘Ghost DNA’ belonging to ancient extinct humans is still alive in the genomes of West Africans
A new lineage of humans has been identified in the DNA of certain African populations. But no one knows what ...
Oldest human skull out of Africa forces us to rethink migration timeline
Was this an isolated individual, or part of an earlier wave of human migration?
Early humans adapted to hunt monkeys and squirrels
The humans had to become very efficient in order to survive.
The Timeline of Human Evolution
We're taking you for a ride through evolutionary memory lane, carefully listing the members of our long family tree.
Ancient human fossil finger found in Arabia could rewrite our species’ history
A tiny fingerbone is re-writing the story of human dispersal out of Africa.
Scientists double the number of Neanderthal genomes, gleaning new tribal insights
Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.
Modern humans and Denisovans interbred at least twice in history
Our ancestors interbred both with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Oldest human fossil outside Africa suggests our species left the continent 100,000 years earlier than thought
A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.
Virtual reconstruction shows what the first modern humans to reach Europe looked like
A lot has changed in 30.000 years.
Neanderthal and modern humans shared long childhoods
Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.
Modern humans might’ve killed off the Neanderthals by eating all the mammoth
Dibs on the last slice.
‘Hobbits’ didn’t evolve from a direct modern human ancestor. They likely originate from Africa instead
The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.
Mysterious 400,000-year-old skull found in Portugal might have belonged to a Neanderthal ancestor
No one knows who the direct ancestor of Neanderthals is but this skull might help shed light.
How humans turned “safari” to “safe” – what large mammals diversity worldwide would look without us
The fact that the greatest biodiversity of large mammals we know of today is recorded in Africa is a legacy ...
Earliest specimen from the human family discovered in Ethiopia
A broken jaw unearthed in Ethiopia pushes back the origin of the homo linage - of which homo sapiens sapiens ...
22,000 year old skull fragment may represent extinct lineage of modern humans
A partial skull fragment found in Kenya seems to indicate that early humans were much more diverse than previously thought. ...
Early human ancestors used their hands much in the way as we do
After analyzing key hand bone fragments from fossil records, a team of anthropologists conclude that pre-homo human ancestral species, such ...
Unique gene passed by extinct human species makes Tibetans superhuman
Tibetans acquired a unique gene by interbreeding with a now-extinct human species. Photo: easytourchina.com Advancements in ...