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

Our ancestors, for example, had babies with the shorter, stockier species and swapped DNA for thousands ... provide clues ...

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 ...

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.

A new study suggests Neanderthals could not adapt to a period of increased radiation as well as early modern humans did ... may have had an edge on their cousins thanks to their use of sun ...

Studies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have shown a three- to fourfold higher nucleotide diversity in chimpanzees compared with humans 1, as well as a greater extent of mtDNA sequence variation in ...