Earlier this week, a team of researchers announced that they’d made a discovery about how we inherit mitochondrial dna from ...
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The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...
An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...
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Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...