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 ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

Isotopes are variations of an element that have a different number of neutrons in their nuclei, and are consumed through food and drink ... a mystery about the Neanderthals' demise roughly ...

THE important discoveries in the domain of human palaeontology which have been made in recent years, and those, far greater in number, which may be referred to the Neolithic period, have now made ...

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Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

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 ...

"Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own ... of cars that returned to life I Investigated the City That Wants Fast Food Banned ...

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study ...

Scientists know something crucial happened to those who dispersed. "They met Neanderthals," says Sümer. To be more direct, prehistoric sparks flew. These early modern humans and the Neanderthals had ...

But they differ in their methodology and offer their own unique contributions to the discussion surrounding humans’ Neanderthal ancestry. Research on the Nature paper was led by Johannes Krause ...