The legacy of Neandertals in modern people has often been framed as a genetic gift for fighting infection. This time, the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo sapiens was one of these branches that emerged in Africa, spread across the world, and displaced every archaic human it encountered. Neanderthals, Homo ...

What can archaic introgression tell us about archaic humans and about ourselves? Every person alive today inherited some portion of their genomes from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and other ancient relatives were evolutionary dead ends — unfortunate cousins who left no descendants. In the 30 years since I left university, those early lessons have ...