Previous estimates for the interbreeding period ranged widely, from 54,000 to 41,000 years ago. This study narrowed it to around 47,000 years ago, providing a clearer picture of when modern humans ...

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Modern humans arrived in westernmost Europe 41,000 to 38,000 years ago, ... Harsh environmental conditions during this period posed challenges that both modern human and Neanderthal populations ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the most recent hominin to permanently settle in Europe, around 45,000 years ago.Previously, the continent was dominated for hundreds of thousands of years by ...

Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary teachers seven lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Asia Society is proud to present Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan. This exhibition reevaluates a seminal era of turmoil, creativity, and transformation in Japan spanning the mid-nineteenth to ...