A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Neanderthals didn’t go extinct in a blaze of conflict—new research shows they may have quietly vanished through interbreeding ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...