A selective advantage may have led the modern human Y chromosome to sweep through the Neanderthal population after it was…
Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.…
Paranthropus robustus. Credit: Guérin Nicolas/wikipedia., CC BY-SA Genetic diseases are fairly common today, with more than one in 25 children being born with…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación…
Abstract Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and…
Ash traced back to an Ethiopian volcano suggests the remains are at least 233,000 years old. Ethiopia's Kibish Formation was…
Background In contrast to Great Apes, who have 48 chromosomes, modern humans and likely Neandertals and Denisovans have and had,…
An analysis of the blood types of one Denisovan and three Neanderthal individuals has uncovered new clues to the evolutionary…
Research has started to show the ways that introgressed genes from Neandertals affect brain shape in living people. A decade…
How did Lucy walk? Although the famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton shows that she was undoubtedly an upright walker, our incomplete knowledge…