Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, the NewSpace superstar set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

A study reveals that the majority of genes transmitted to us by Neanderthals through hybridization between the two species ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but two ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.