Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

they would already have had intermixed Neanderthal genes. "We show that the period of mixing was quite complex and may have taken a long time. Different groups could have separated during the ...

D enisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, ...

sapiens had not been expanding out of Africa, Neanderthal populations would have recolonized all of Eurasia in the following interglacial period for the umpteenth time from their refuges in ...

A broader study on Neanderthal ancestry ... They seem to have mixed with each other for a long period of time and were living side by side for a long period of time.” The research pinpointed ...

the researchers say that more Neanderthal genomes need to be sequenced. “I would guess that if we had more genomes from other regions during this similar time period, we would probably find ...

After studying the geographical distribution of both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens during the time period, it is believed they comingled, and the researchers narrowed down the list of possible ...

The researchers found that, over time, the distribution ... This resulted in a lower proportion of Neanderthal DNA observed in European genomes during this period. “The thing was that they ...

And over this time period of maybe half a million years ... very long chunks of Neanderthal DNA. I mentioned it before—we could already show that about 15 years ago, we sequenced the Neanderthal ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating ... that part of the world in that period of time,” Ben Marwick, co-author and ...