This tiny track, alongside those of an older child and at least one adult, is at the heart of a remarkable discovery. For the ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest example of interbreeding between the two groups.

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The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

New fossil and DNA studies reveal that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early Homo sapiens occurred ...

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(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...