Oldest human

It seems that the idea of free love started a lot earlier than the 1960s. An international team of researchers has found a tiny bone fragment belonging to an ancient hominin, named ‘Denny’ by the team, that had a Neanderthal for a mother and a Denisovan for a father – two of the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans.

The oldest known human DNA, which may belong to a mysterious branch of humanity, reveals human evolution was even more confusing than thought, researchers say.

The recent African origin of modern humans, frequently dubbed the "Out of Africa" theory, is the most widely accepted model describing mankind's geographic origin and

Although a handful of older human remains have been found in Europe, none could be attributed to a specific species, making this new finding at a site in Atapuerca unique.

A discovery that will change world human history

Fossil footprints discovered in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, are the oldest known in the Americas. These footprints date

Humans have many half-Neanderthal, half-human ancestors. But none of those ancestors passed us Neanderthal Y-chromosomes. Now scientists think they know why.

Modern humans, Homo Sapiens, are now the only surviving member of the homo genus. It is almost inconceivable to us that there was a time we walked with other human species, but as the science of archaeology has progressed and more findings have been made it has become clear that the homo genus was once rife with different species.

His documents say Mbah Ghoto was born in 1870 - which would make him the longest living human ever.

No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met.