The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...

They were also able to estimate the amount of human DNA present in some lineages of Neanderthals. In particular, the Vindija and Altai Neanderthals could have had around 2.5 percent and 3.7 ...

In the study, scientists provided the genetic data for 13 Neanderthals from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia — 11 from the Chagyrskaya Cave and two from ...

Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive ...

But DNA from a fossil found earlier in a nearby cave had proved to be Neanderthal, so it was possible this bone was Neanderthal as well. The Theory The Denisovans’ closest cousins were Neanderthals.