The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

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When you arrive at the Natural History Museum by Tube and walk from the underground station through the South Kensington subway, you’ll emerge into our new Evolution Garden. Your journey will begin in ...

We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful ...

And what can life's timeline here say about the possibility of other technologically advanced lifeforms in the universe? One ...

Modern humans first appeared only 200,000 years ago. Vocativ created this graphic showing how the fossil has changed what we know about the timeline of the origin of humankind: ...

Aa Aa Aa Reconstructing the evolution of human development from a severely limited fossil record may be viewed as both a fundamental challenge and a promising field of research. Life history ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...