Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be considered separate species. Amanda Heidt is a Utah-based ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Despite the existence of just one species today, Homo sapiens, investigations at ancient sites may uncover a new species.

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most ...

Yet there are some who would argue that they should be classed as a subspecies of our own, as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. This is largely because we know the two human lineages interbred. Chris ...

These subspecies of archaic humans are believed to have inhabited eastern Asia around 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. They ...

homo neanderthalensis or homo sapiens.' While the human family tree was once considered fairly simple, recent years have seen a sudden bloom of new offshoots. For example, in 2003, scientists ...

Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens," said Bae in a press statement released by University of Hawai‘i. The research paper suggests a connection between Homo juluensis and Denisovans ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 years of human history to discover when the two groups bred. Both studies suggested this inter-species ...