While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

Gibraltar 1, the first adult female Neanderthal skull ever discovered The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and ...

Such an incompatibility, they note, would have likely led to hemolytic disease in offspring if a Homo sapiens or Denisova male were to mate with a Neanderthal female—a result that would have led ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began ...

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

sapiens who were exposed to different selection pressures in the new realm of Eurasia. "For any case of inbreeding of a Neanderthal female with a Homo sapiens or Denisova male, there is a high ...