Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have uncovered a history of genetic intermingling that reveals a ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

Neanderthals might have lived as ‘different human form’ instead of separate species, scientists say - ‘We demonstrate that ...

A new study shows that our ability to digest carbs long predates the agricultural revolution, and even Neanderthals had ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

If you've ever struggled to reduce your carb intake, ancient DNA might be to blame. It has long been known that humans carry ...

Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently ...

That study, in the journal Nature, suggested that humans acquired more copies of amylase genes with the arrival of ...

LSU anthropology professor attended a conference in Croatia, where she was invited to present her research on human ancestors ...