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

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

But it was not a Neanderthal or Homo sapien; researchers from the Max Planck Institute announced that it was a new species of human, the Denisovan. Interbreeding can be confusing. For instance, why do ...

Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ancestry dating back 1.5 million years. The two populations later reconnected. The mystery population (Population B ...

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 ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.