The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health! Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago.

Those of us who signed up for DNA testing kits from 23andMe did so thinking we’d unlock deep ancestral secrets. Maybe we’d ...

The gene that enables East Asian adults to drink milk without getting side effects like stomach cramps was probably inherited from Neanderthals, thousands of years before humans started consuming ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going as far east as the Altai Mountains. But it’s very possible they made ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...