The origin of humanity can be summarized as a long story of hybridization and migrations. The more data we have about the ...

The Denisovans were close relatives of Neanderthals. The researchers announced the discovery in 2010. In 2013, a study proposed that the Denisovan lineage led to the existence of Neanderthals.

Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

Until now, scientists haven’t understood how Denisovans, whose remains had previously been found only in western China and Siberia, contacted and interbred with modern humans who migrated east from ...

Recent research from The Rockefeller University suggests a unique mutation in the NOVA1 gene, specific to humans, played a ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.

The study also confirmed that the variant is not found in either Neanderthals or Denisovans, archaic humans that our ancestors interbred with, as is evidenced by their genetic traces that remain ...