Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

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Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub-Saharan peoples who were around at the time. While the Takarkori apparently had less contact with Neanderthals than the ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

By Eden Omari I am constantly reminded and put in my place each time I open a Eugene Weekly, university newspaper, or ...

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

"Our findings suggest that while early North African populations were largely isolated, they received traces of Neanderthal ...

This is roughly the same time Quina scrapers were being used in Europe at Neanderthal sites. Keliang Zhao from ... Our ...