While the topic of this book might seem a little depressing, it is really a powerful wake-up call to all of us, based on the ...

Trump defends Putin over Russia’s Palm Sunday attack on Sumy: ‘It was a mistake’ - ...

The National Park Service is cutting off access to Cleetwood Cove Trail, the most heavily used trail at Crater Lake National ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Stoneking helped Wilson establish the existence of "mitochondrial Eve"—a woman who lived in Africa ... right arm bone of a 42,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil. Paabo handed over the sample ...

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

concluded that the woman represented a previously undiscovered species of archaic human that had survived for thousands of years after the Neanderthals had died out. They named her Homo ...

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

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. “Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with ...

There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these groups mated and exchanged DNA. Advances in genome-sequencing and fossil discoveries have helped ...