Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

When modern humans emerged from Africa, they explored far more than just new places. They encountered other human species, ...

sapiens. So we can look for bits of Neanderthal DNA sequence in the genomes of modern humans. The genomes of all human lineages originating in Europe contain about 2% Neanderthal DNA sequences.

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) have around 30 times as much DNA as humans, according to a ... the researchers wrote in the paper. Modern lungfish can breathe air using ...

Prof Stringer said initial dispersals of modern humans into Europe may have been by small bands which could not sustain their presence in the face of a larger Neanderthal presence. Indeed ...

In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.

Together with an Asian people known as Denisovans, Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. Scientific evidence suggests our two species shared a common ancestor. Current evidence from ...

Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. An ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into ... South Africa and Zambia -- which has some of the world's earliest evidence of modern humans, with the oldest genomes dating back around ...

When modern humans emerged from Africa ... as we still carry Neanderthal DNA millennia later. Archaeologist Saman Guran from Germany's University of Cologne and colleagues used a combination ...

When modern humans emerged from Africa ... as we still carry Neanderthal DNA millennia later. Archaeologist Saman Guran from Germany's University of Cologne and colleagues used a combination of ...