Simulation Reveals First Encounters of Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Europe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

However, the child's precise ancestry is still uncertain. The skull was part of a cache of mysterious human remains unearthed almost 100 years ago in Skhul Cave, located on Mount Carmel in Israel.

Fossil and genetic evidence indicates our immediate human ancestors evolved in Africa beginning about two million years ago ...