We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

When modern humans travelled from Asia to the Americas, traversing the Bering Strait for the first time, they were well prepared. That's because these travelers brought along an adaptive variant in ...

A new Simon Fraser University-led study reveals interbreeding between humans and their ancient cousins, Neanderthals, as the likely origin of a neurological condition estimated to impact up to one per ...

Recent scientific findings suggest that Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than their Homo sapiens ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...