Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

It separated from Neanderthals about 300,000 years ago, but there are also some populations of modern humans today that carry some of that DNA, some ancestry from those Denisovans. And that ...

Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

Neanderthal-introgressed genes in the OAS ... while Native Americans and Northeast Asians exhibit a mix of northern and southern ancestry, all with arrows that point to a shared African starting ...

Unlike Neanderthal DNA, which makes up roughly 2 ... where natural selection removes harmful mutations over time. Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform ...