Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Homo sapiens And Homo neanderthalensis they are two species of hominids who shared our planet for tens of thousands of ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

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

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in east China identified as an extinct species of leopard cat Th ...