"Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own ...

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

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

The comet was discovered independently in January 2023 by two observatories - China's Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) ...

A team of researchers has made an important step in understanding the origins of modern Japanese people. Scientists were able ...

The "Sunday Morning" book reviewer offers his suggestions for fall reading, including new novels by Richard Powers, Rachel Kushner and Danzy Senna.

In this tricky comic thriller, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists ...

ESET Research shares new findings about Telekopye, a scam toolkit used to defraud people on online marketplaces, and newly on ...

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

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

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

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