To map genetic flow over the past 250,000 years ... Akey’s team found even those reference groups had trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA, likely brought by travelers. With IBDmix, the team ...

The saola’s newly sequenced genome offers hope for one of Earth’s rarest mammals.

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question. The publication of two ...

Green is no stranger to breakthroughs; he extracted DNA from ancient neanderthal bones 15 years ago. He told the court it is now "widely accepted science," but he admitted his lab is not yet ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

The Takarkori women also demonstrated a 10-fold reduction in Neanderthal DNA compared to populations living outside of Africa. They have more Neanderthal DNA than contemporary sub-Saharan Africans.

Unlike Neanderthals, whose bones have been found throughout Europe and western Asia for more than a century, Denisovans are mostly known from DNA. Only a handful of fossils have ever been found ...

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

The first scientist to analyze segments of DNA from Neanderthal bones, Paabo now wants to re-create the entire DNA sequence of a Neanderthal and compare it with our own, looking for the reasons ...