Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...
Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.
By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...
Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating insights into the genetic history of the region. This groundbreaking ...
Ancient DNA has revealed that a common childhood herpesvirus was infecting—and even embedding itself into human genomes—thousands of years ago. The findings show a deep, shared evolutionary history ...
Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...
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