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Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

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Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.