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

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

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

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

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

Modern humans and Neanderthals clearly interbred, genetic evidence shows, but exactly where and when has remained murky. Now, ...

"Unfortunately, we're likely never actually going to get archaeological evidence of Neanderthal clothes," Cara Ocobock, a human biologist at the University of Notre Dame, told Live Science.

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

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

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

Such a discovery could broaden our understanding of human evolution and the interactions between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. However, at this stage, these revelations raise more questions than ...

The conclusions are tentative, but it’s possible our closest relatives relied too much on the advantage gravity gave them.