These new findings mean that the ‘history of modern humans will now have to be rewritten’, Prof Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, in Germany told the BBC.

Prof Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, in Germany, told BBC News that the history of modern humans will now have to be rewritten. "We see modern humans as a big ...

Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...

Those genomes allowed him and his collaborators to peer into the genetic history of humans who lived in Europe at that time. Arev Sümer, lead author on the Nature paper and a PhD student in ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding between ...

Throughout the history of mankind, eating insects has actually been a ... Parts of insects are consumed by humans more commonly than generally expected. It is impossible to perfectly eliminate all ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins ...

of non-African people living today came from Neanderthals. But when did this interbreeding happen? Did the two groups mate throughout their shared history? Or was their rendezvous cut short?

Ancient human fossils discovered in a cave in eastern China have traits of both primitive and modern humans – a finding that could potentially challenge the “out of Africa” theory of human ...