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The world’s most powerful economy, the United States, may be dismissing hard data and scientific consensus for now, while ...

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It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

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

Does the Natural History Museum’s Neanderthal man look familiar? (Picture: Getty) The team from University College London found that three ‘Neanderthal variants’ of a particular gene ...

This past summer, Paabo announced that he and his co-workers were going to take the next—and biggest—step, in their effort to resurrect the genome of the Neanderthal, our distant evolutionary ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted Neanderthals did not. A variety of approaches, including ochre sunscreen and ...