Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range ...

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Modern-day humans can have up to 4% DNA in their genes ... paired up with their cousins. Around 250,000 years ago, early humans in Africa started heading towards the cooler climes of Eurasia.

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

The researchers analyzed changes to gene expression in ecDNA formed by HPV and human DNA hybridization in oropharyngeal tumor ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

Though genetic material does not preserve well in arid climates, which is why much about ancient human populations in the Sahara remains a mystery, there was enough fragmented DNA to give insights ...