Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to climate change, rivers, or fertile land as the main reasons early people gave up hunting and gathering to grow food. But new research now ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

The identified shifts in regional population sizes provide new insights into how early humans responded to the environmental challenges of their time. The study focuses on two key periods ...