Jack the Ripper was identified as Polish barber Aaron Kosminski by researcher Russell Edwards. The historian is now seeking ...

Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its ...

Philadelphia Eagles fans lined the streets of the city’s famed Broad Street for a victory parade on Friday to celebrate their ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

On this episode of Hacking Humans, we are going old school with Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan sans T-Minus host Maria Varmazis (as she was hanging out with astronauts at the SpaceCom event). Not to ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

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New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

We know humans organized themselves in an incredible array of variety, with a multitude of gender roles and self-expression.

The results revealed a notable difference: Neanderthals possessed a rare variant of the Rh factor, called RhD. This particularity, still present in a tiny fraction of the current human population, was ...