Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

New Genetic Data Reveals Humans Still Carry DNA from Ancient Population A recent study published in Nature Genetics introduces a groundbreaking method of modeling genetic information that has ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...