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 ...

New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI. Also, how much meat did human ancestors eat? How the Baltic Nord Stream gas pipeline rupture of 2022 was the biggest single release of ...

The species, named 'Denisovans' after a cave some of their remains were found in, lived between 200,000 and 25,000 years ago. Their fossil and DNA records show that they lived on the Tibetan ...

Photograph by Justin Jin The Denisovans, as Pääbo’s team dubbed them, became the first human group ever identified solely through DNA—a ghost species, as experts call those without a ...

While the new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia regarding interbreeding and Homo Sapiens’ relationship with Denisovans ...

It challenges the common conception of prehistoric human diets, painting a distinctly different picture of our ancestors’ eating habits. The archaeological study suggests that early hominids didn’t ...

In a study of critical rearrangements of our chromosomes and select variations in our genes, the team looked at genome databases built from Neanderthal fossils, Denisovan fossils, and modern human ...