As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

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

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

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 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 ...

His lab’s studies have shed light on how humans migrated and adapted to new environments and how traits linked to Neanderthal DNA are gradually ... the past and present distribution of genetic ...

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 ...

Graham Coop, a UC Davis professor of evolution and ecology and director of the Center for Population Biology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his exceptional ...