A new fossil discovery, Anadoluvius turkae, suggests human ancestors evolved in Europe, not Africa, challenging traditional ...

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

Understanding the ways humans and animals organize and execute complex sequences of behavior sheds light on the evolution of ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

Spiders, crabs, and other arthropods evolved from a group of animals that underwent a burst of diversity around 500 million ...

Even after our successful interbreeding with Neanderthals, our population of Europe wasn't without hitches. Those first ...

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins ...

DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution ...

INDEX "So far the evidence that we have in the world points to Africa as the Cradle of Humankind." George Abungu, Director-General of the National Museums of Kenya. Most of the av ...