Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

We all know that Neanderthals and Modern Humans are closest related to each other when it comes to different species in the ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...