Discovery of Genetic Mutation That Separates Humans and Neanderthals

An international team of scientists representing Russia, Germany, and the United States have found a unique mechanism at work in the DNA of…

Big Difference Between Neanderthal and Modern Human Brains Discovered

Updated 9 September, 2022 - 18:50 Sahir Neanderthals, a subspecies of archaic humans who split from modern humans sometime between 300,000 and 80,000…

Neolithic Solutions to Lactose Intolerance Revealed in New Study

Updated 16 March, 2023 - 13:59 Sahir During the Neolithic period up until the Late Bronze Age, lactose intolerance was prevalent among the…

Modern Humans Derived Their Long and Broad Noses From Neanderthals

Long dismissed for being our brutish ancestors, we share more with Neanderthals than we think, and increasingly research is showing us just how…

A Cross-Continental Odyssey Tracks Neanderthal DNA! (Video)

While Neanderthals went extinct approximately 40,000 years ago, they left a legacy hidden inside the genetic codes of humans, in the form of…

Ukraine’s Skulls Show Early Modern Humans Originated in the East

By Eva-Maria Geigl & Thierry Grange/The Conversation How did our species,  Homo sapiens , arrive in Western Europe? Published in  Nature Ecology &…