About 813,000 years ago, numbers began rising rapidly again, setting the stage for later expansions of humans across the globe. ... Schematic diagram of human population size history.

Stringer noted that prior research suggested that the interbreeding that introduced Neanderthal DNA into the modern human genome took place between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. The new estimate of ...

The transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic, approximately 40,000–35,000 radiocarbon years ago, marks a turning point in the history of human evolution in Europe. Many changes in ...

Updated 12:56 PM EDT, Wed March 12, 2025 ... Fossil fragments found in a cave in northern Spain reveal a previously unknown human population that lived over 1.1 million years ago.

The genomes were recovered from seven individuals who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in ... early modern human population contributed to later ... 12). Oldest modern human ...

An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

They included the oldest ancient DNA from the region to date, from two individuals who lived around 10,000 years ago. The findings show that the population history of southernmost Africa is ...

If dogs really were domesticated 15,000 years ago, says Leonard, then it's remarkable that they spread across three continents in only a few thousand years. At the time humans were still hunter ...

Different human groups in Europe "actually went extinct several times — including Neanderthals going extinct around that time, 40,000 to 45,000 years ago," he said.

Add all of us up, all 7 billion human beings on earth, and clumped together we weigh roughly 750 billion pounds. That, says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, is more than 100 times the biomass of any ...