Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a long-lost human ancestor that may have played a critical role in our evolution. The species, called the Denisovans, lived 200,000 years ago.

A PRELIMINARY account of the discovery of skeletal remains of Neanderthal man in Central Asia is given by Dr. Aleš Hrdlička through the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. The remains—the ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Manchester United held Liverpool to a 2-2 draw at Anfield — with both sides going ahead at different stages in the game — and you've been voting for your Man of the Match since the referee's ...

A new study identifies 18 genome regions that influence tooth size and shape, of which 17 have not been linked to our chompers before – and shows how genetic variation affects tooth dimensions across ...

One relevant example is research on Neanderthals, our closest relatives, who lived until about 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals have been studied for several years now through genetic investigation ...

The reconstruction of Altamura Man by Dutch artists Adrie and Alfons Kennis. (Credit: Roberto Montanari/Shutterstock) 5. Altamura Man’s Frozen Legacy Deep in an Italian cave, researchers discovered ...

Mr. Sopko has been the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction since 2012. The collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, revealed what little ...

It is not clear how many facial reconstruction surgeries have been ... who carefully placed it into what was left of the young man’s jaw. The implant looked like a butterfly: one piece of ...