When the trailers for Twisters dropped, the sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, they promised a rollicking weather ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the ...

A detailed analysis of these remnants was used to recreate the climate and activity of a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...

Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

New insights were made on early human relatives, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, and their interactions with modern humans, as well as clues to interactions between hominins over one ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...