According to the study announcing the finding in Nature, the mDNA profile showed the Denisovans—named after the cave where the fossils were discovered—migrated out of Africa separately from early ...

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights ...

Dating over 45,000 years ago, they are the oldest human remains ever found so far north. This means that early Homo sapiens lived alongside Neanderthals in that region for thousands of years.

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...