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, ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

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.