Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic variant ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

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Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

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 about ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in the Cell Press journal Cell Genomics on May 21, researchers ...