Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient cousins, new research suggests. Researchers found that different versions of a ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

What can archaic introgression tell us about archaic humans and about ourselves? Every person alive today inherited some portion of their genomes from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...