Scientists have uncovered a genetic variant, inherited from Neanderthals, that may limit athletic performance. The mutation is thought to affect roughly 8% of modern-day Europeans and influences the ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

The extinction of Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, has long been a subject of intrigue and speculation. A groundbreaking study published in 2023 has shed new light on this mystery, ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating everything from shifts in the climate to war with modern humans may have ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

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This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

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Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.