A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, our *Homo sapiens* ancestors shared the landscape with multiple other hominins. The Washington Post via Getty Images Then, between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, all ...

Scientists have discovered that an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan belonged to Denisovans, a little-known extinct group closely related to Neanderthals and modern humans. The jawbone fragment, along ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Neanderthals, Denisovans and our ancestors were mixing and mingling a long time ago -- and some of our genetics can be traced back to these archaic humans. In Asians, as much as 3% of an individual's ...

Then, between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, all but one type of these hominins disappeared, and for the first time we were alone. Until recently, one of the mysteries about human history was whether ...

Even hardened tooth tartar can rewrite textbooks,” said evolutionary geneticist Qiaomei Fu, whose research team has just ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our species, Homo sapiens, has a more adventurous sexual history than previously realized, and all that bed-hopping long ago has left an indelible mark on the human genome.

When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning ...