This process of discovery has increased significantly since we learnt that some humans have Neanderthal DNA, a genetic fingerprint left behind when ancient humans intermixed with this now-extinct ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

There, they encountered our closest, now-extinct human relatives — the Neanderthals. Over thousands of years, these groups mated and exchanged DNA. Today, we can still see the genetic legacy of ...

Samper Carro. The site’s location proved crucial to understanding why Neanderthals chose this particular spot. When scientists analyzed ancient pollen grains preserved in the shelter’s layers, they ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still ...

Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Neanderthals disappeared, but why? Among the many hypotheses put forward, a new study points to a biological factor that has been little explored until now. French researchers analyzed their blood ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

They also identified numerous inconsistencies between models and studies identifying hybridization events between Neanderthals and sapiens. For example, some models predict much higher or lower levels ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same ... which gives the "positive" and "negative" signs to blood types. So, nowadays, knowing which of the ...