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

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

A new study has suggested that the ability to start digesting starchy foods in the mouth may have developed before the split ...

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

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

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

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

Some years ago, when the topic of the prehistory of the Armenian highlands came up, the first things that would come to mind ...

His DNA resembles Neanderthals who lived over 100,000 years ... themselves and just died in a whisper," Slimak said. Modern humans' large social networks may have helped them survive How universal ...

By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth ... that analyzed the DNA from one of the last of these ancient humans is giving scientists clues about why they vanished while modern ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed “Thorin,” found by Slimak managed to stay totally isolated from groups ...