Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

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

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.

By making a map that showed how chemical changes to gene expression could influence physical traits, researchers deduced that Denisovans had wider heads and longer dental arches than Neanderthals ...

We've known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic ... Still, other areas that are highlighted on the map, but aren't spoken about as much in the study ...

Neanderthals ... curiosity to bring home a map of a world previously uncharted. His return fattened the value of both England’s imperial marine culture and the genetic traits he’d displayed ...

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

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

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, curiosity about these ancient hominins has surged. How did they ...

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“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 ...

“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,” which ...