Research reveals that our ability to digest starchy foods has much deeper roots than previously thought, potentially ...

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

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

Ancient DNA may be reason for your love of carbohydrates, study suggests - Researchers have found that the gene for ...

They say their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man, who lived in Europe for 260,000 years before the ancestors of modern man arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago.

Information about the Denisovans, just like their remains, are much scarcer, although little by little an exciting map of the ...

"The Thorin population spent 50,000 years without exchanging genes with other Neanderthal populations," explains Paul Sabatier University archaeologist Ludovic Slimak. Coincidentally, this group of ...

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

“The population of Thorin had spent 50 millennia without exchanging a single gene with the classical Neanderthal populations.” The analysis showed that Thorin had “high genetic homozygosity ...

Now, more than 150 years of archaeological and genetic evidence makes it clear that these early human relatives were much more advanced than we originally thought. Neanderthals crafted ...

as we still carry Neanderthal DNA millennia later. Archaeologist Saman Guran from Germany's University of Cologne and colleagues used a combination of genetic, archaeological, topographical, and ...