Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

The idea that Neanderthals and some ancestral populations of Homo sapiens interbred has gained traction over the past two ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals, a new ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals, a new ...

Some modern-day people have 2 percent Neanderthal DNA, according to Prof. Chris Stringer, a leading human evolution researcher at the British Natural History Museum. Over the past century and a half, ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

AI models are able to design molecules that don’t even exist in nature. Some have proven effective as snake antivenom.