Two mysterious human relatives left their genetic footprints in the modern human genome alongside the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans, underscoring the fact that our ancestors interbred with many ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Move aside, Neanderthals, new suitors of modern humans have been discovered from the Altai Mountains of Siberia. These suitors are the Denisovans, whose interbreeding with modern humans apparently ...

Imagine a world where our Neanderthal cousins were still alive. With their robust physical attributes and resilience, they could potentially outfight and outlift us. However, when it comes to ...

A new Tel Aviv University study challenges assumptions about the Neanderthal pelvis, finding that modern human males evolved a distinct walking mechanism. Men may want to blame biology for their ...

Natural selection has been playing a bigger role in changing modern human DNA than previously thought, according to a new study. geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 Many people are familiar with ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans that replaced them. Deep down in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ...

Explore the surprising Neanderthal DNA distribution in modern humans and how Neanderthal genes help adapt to cooler climates. You've heard that Neanderthal DNA lives on in the genes of many modern ...

An interview about interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans, with the study’s lead author Israel Hershkovitz, of Tel Aviv University. Video provided by Tel Aviv University. Israel ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...