A study has provided fascinating insights into how ancient humans interacted with Amazonian ecosystems centuries ago.

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...

An analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that pre-colonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than a 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in ...

But then, roughly 100,000 years ago, humans started leaving ... that selection on Neanderthal genes in early humans happened within a couple thousand years of interbreeding. That is, "there ...

ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: Roughly a hundred thousand years ago, humans started leaving Africa in waves. Arev Sumer is a paleogenetics Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...