A tooth found inside of a mountain cave in Laos has solved one of the biggest scientific mysteries of the Denisovans, a branch of ancient humans that disappeared roughly 50,000 years ago. Since 2010, when Denisovan teeth and finger bones were first discovered, DNA testing has revealed that the enigmatic hominins were among the ancestors of people alive today in Australia and the Pacific. But scien
Scientists on Friday announced that a massive fossilized skull that is at least 140,000 years old is a new species of ancient human, a finding that could potentially change prevailing views of how — and even where — our species, Homo sapiens, evolved. The skull belonged to a mature male who had a huge brain, massive brow ridges, deep set eyes and a bulbous nose. It had remained hidden in an abando
How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery A study found that all living Aboriginal Australians descend from a single founding population that arrived about 50,000 years ago.Credit...P.C. Poulsen/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Human skeletons and archaeological remains in Australia can be traced back nearly 50,000 years before the trail disappears. Before t
The KhoiSan, hunter-gatherers living today in southern Africa, above, are among hundreds of indigenous people whose genetic makeup has provided new clues to human prehistory.Credit...Eric Laforgue/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species go on to populate the rest of the globe? The question, one of the biggest in studies of hu
Ben A. Potter, left, and Joshua D. Reuther of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, at the Upward Sun River site where the discovery of a pair of children in a ceremonial grave offered glimpses at the history of the first Americans.Credit...Ben A. Potter/University of Alaska Fairbanks Researchers have long wondered how people settled the Americas, particularly the path they took to the new territor
A male skeleton associated with the Yamnaya culture near Samara, Russia.Credit...Pavel Kuznetsov For centuries, archaeologists have reconstructed the early history of Europe by digging up ancient settlements and examining the items that their inhabitants left behind. More recently, researchers have been scrutinizing something even more revealing than pots, chariots and swords: DNA. On Wednesday in
Chinese passengers wait on a train platform at the Beijing Railway Station. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of Asians at two points in history, giving this population an extra infusion of Neanderthal DNA.Credit...European Pressphoto Agency In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with th
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