Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

A global team of geneticists and geologists have determined that “anatomically modern humans” originated from a region that’s presently called the Okavango Delta. This area has northern Botswana as ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Neanderthals lived for hundreds of thousands of years before mysteriously disappearing around 40,000 years ago—and scientists have long puzzled over what caused their extinction. One possible ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin ...

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago. New research on available Neanderthal genetic ...