A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

It’s a somewhat uncomfortable reality that Homo sapiens interbred with their closest relatives, the "sister species" ...

Being the only Neanderthal raised in a 21st-century world of humans would likely be lonely and isolating, possibly like the ...

The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged mingling between anatomically modern humans and our closely related ...

In the Altai mountains of southern Siberia, there's a cave that was inhabited for millennia. It's called Denisova, and it shelters something remarkable: the bones of different types of ancient human ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

The news that everybody except Africans have Neanderthal blood is causing shock waves around the world. In case you missed this latest jolt to human pride... The news that everybody except Africans ...

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

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