said pinpointing the interbreeding event helps line up other key parts of the human evolution timeline. The findings constrain “the timing of the arrival of populations in regions like China and ...

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The recent discovery of a 2.8 million year-old fossilized jawbone in Ethiopia is helping scientists clear up a clouded period in the evolution of modern humans. The African continent is rich with ...

The new studies say those populations died off and became evolutionary dead ends. “Human history is not just a story of success. We actually went extinct several times,” said an author of the Nature ...

The analysis, which involved present-day human genomes as well as 58 ancient genomes sequenced from DNA found in modern human bones from around Eurasia, found an average date for Neanderthal-Homo ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, ...

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That an early mammalian relative had it, too, is thus providing scientists with more contextual clues about how mammals began to evolve along their evolutionary timeline, since no fossils this old ...

She points out that although Charles Darwin described language as “half art, half instinct”, most people who study its evolution have neglected the creative element. Her research starts to ...