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 been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

Hominins are believed to have started leaving Africa around 2 million years ago, spreading out into Eurasia. The earliest indisputable fossil evidence of hominins outside of Africa comes from ...

DNA analysis of that tiny fossil led to the 2010 finding that it represented a distinct ancient human population, which scientists dubbed the Denisovans. Many people alive today carry traces of ...

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 plateau, ...

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 ...

The archaeological study suggests that early hominids didn’t just rely on animal protein; they were voracious consumers of a range of plant-based foods. The discovery of ancient starch grains was the ...