A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before ...

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

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

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

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

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

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

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

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

Analyzing the genomes of 68 ancient humans, including a 45,000-year-old sample from Siberia, the researchers found that ...

A new study reveals how the duplication of the salivary amylase gene may not only have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods, but may have occurred as far back as more than 800,000 years ago, ...