Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Analysis of DNA from Neanderthal bones revealed that a group in Western Europe were surprisingly healthy, shortly before they ...

We know that modern humans and Neanderthals shared genes during the time they overlapped on Earth. Now a new study published ...

Eating insects is completely normal in large parts of the world, yet in Europe and North America the idea still makes most ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Until recently, the idea of cloning a Neanderthal seemed exclusively a science fiction plot. However, today such issues are ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

LOS ANGELES - As recently as 2008, scientists thought that Neanderthals and modern humans had never mated. Then, last year, they said that the two species had - but that the few Neanderthal genes that ...

Ancient DNA indicates that humans’ ability and willingness to eat insects may have depended strongly on geography.

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused their disappearance ...