The Denisovans provided the genetic difference for Asian and Australid populations, two of the four “root races” from which ...

Neanderthals disappeared, but why? Among the many hypotheses put forward, a new study points to a biological factor that has ...

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

DNA analysis of that tiny fossil led to the 2010 finding that it represented a distinct ancient human population, which scientists dubbed the Denisovans. Many people alive today carry traces of ...

This happens through a process called epigenetics, whereby certain genes are expressed to a greater or lesser extent depending on a person’s surroundings. Abused children, for instance ...

The story goes that our forebears met these other humans, passed along genes that improved survival, and then forged onward to inhabit new territories. However, we still do not know why Denisovans ...

Studies indicate how such changes dictated migration patterns in Europe and facilitated interbreeding between Neanderthals and Denisovans in Eurasia. Credit: SciTechDaily.com New research using ...

It is caused by an inherited mutation in an allele of the HTT gene, in which a sequence of 3 DNA bases, C, A and G, is repeated at least 36 times. To understand why it takes so long for this ...