Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub-Saharan peoples who were around at the time. While the Takarkori apparently had less contact with Neanderthals than the ...

Mummies discovered in modern-day Libya have been found to have no matching DNA with modern humans, leading to more questions than answers.

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Neanderthals roamed Eurasia for some 400,000 ... to seeing more new finds and more certain human fossil or ancient DNA or paleoproteomic (ancient protein) evidences in East Asia,” she said ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...