I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

Scientists have decoded the world’s oldest human DNA sequence, beating the previous record by almost 300,000 years, and at the same time confusing what we know of our early relatives. Published in ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

A new Neanderthal DNA study suggests interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals favored pairings of female humans with male Neanderthals. This finding challenges traditional evolutionary ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

The researchers also found that Neanderthals had far more human DNA on their X chromosomes than expected. This confirms the ...