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 ...

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

He's a leader of the worldwide quest to explore the past by analyzing human ... evolutionary cousin, who went extinct 30,000 years ago. The first scientist to analyze segments of DNA from ...

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.

One of the most fascinating discoveries in recent years is the evidence that Neanderthal DNA still exists in modern humans and continues ... from our ancient cousins are more influential than ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

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

New methods using DNA from living humans ... this minority group might have had a significant influence on modern humans. Dr. Cousins highlights their potential impact, noting, "Some of the ...