The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there are at present no known fossils.

Successful matings between anatomically modern humans migrating from Africa, Neanderthals, Denisovans and “ghost lineages” all contributed to the contemporary human genome.

A new study finds Denisovans carried DNA from an unknown ancient lineage, revealing a hidden layer of human evolutionary ...

Modern genomes preserve traces of ancient relatives that mixed with human ancestors in Africa and Eurasia.

Two extinct human lineages may still be hiding inside your cells. Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens interbred ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our closest extinct relatives, yet almost nobody knew what they actually looked like ...

Sep. 17, 2026What if the “ghosts” in our DNA are not lost steps in human evolution? A new Science study found DNA patterns that may point to two unknown human groups. Conventi ...

Relatively few fossils belonging to the enigmatic early human have been unearthed in the past. Two new studies describe seven ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

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 ...

A Tangled Human Tree—or One Human Family? もつれた人類の系統樹、それとも一つの人類家族？ by Jonathan K. Corrado, Ph.D., P. E. | Sep. 17, 2026 What if the “ghosts” in our DNA are not lost steps in human evolution? A new Scie ...

In a limestone cave nestled high above the Anuy River in Siberia, scientists have discovered the fossil of an extraordinary human hybrid. The 90,000-year-old bone fragment came from a female whose ...