Some modern humans carry Neanderthal gene variants that affect how their bodies metabolize common medications. This explains ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You'd be forgiven if you said "no." But get this ...

Behind the daily stream of geopolitical tensions and conflicts, 2025 also offered new perspectives on humanity’s connection ...