The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between ...

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

It is believed that interbreeding between the two species took place between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago and that Neanderthal DNA still exists in the genomes of modern humans. This suggests that there ...

The research team found that newly deciphered sequences in the genomes are enriched for non-B motifs and that the patterns of non-B DNA distribution were largely similar across the ape species. The ...

The research team found that newly deciphered sequences in the genomes are enriched for non-B motifs and that the patterns of non-B DNA distribution were largely similar across the ape species.

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.

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the Natural History Museum, Vienna. A new study suggests Neanderthals could not adapt to a period of increased radiation as well as early modern humans did.

The revolutionary new technology of ancient DNA extraction and analysis has shown that all modern Europeans have a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA, for example, while East Asians carry some ...

These lineages are estimated to have diverged from the sub-Saharan African population around 50,000 years ago, and have ancestral traces from the Levant region, as well as small amounts of Neanderthal ...