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Genetic and fossil evidence shows that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans interbred multiple times between 40,000 ...

Conservation geneticist Kristin Brzeski has engaged a broad network of grassroots support in her efforts to restore the red ...

Daily Mail has asked some of the leading evolution experts why, if humans evolved out of primates, do monkeys and apes still ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

Rex Heuermann is accused of killing seven people over a span of decades. A New York judge on Wednesday admitted DNA evidence that Suffolk County prosecutors say links alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer ...

A host of DNA evidence can be used in the trial of a man accused in a string of Long Island killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, a New York judge ruled Wednesday. Ruling in a Riverhead ...

Most of us carry a small trace of Neanderthal ancestry and, in some cases, that legacy sits in our legs. A single change in a muscle enzyme can subtly throttle how hard muscles can work under pressure ...

New research suggests that as ancient humans migrated into the Americas, they carried a surprising evolutionary advantage hidden within their DNA. This genetic code, passed down from an extinct ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...