Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Neanderthals were among the closest extinct relatives of modern humans ... humans who journeyed out of Africa. Today, the genomes of modern human groups outside Africa contain about 1% to 2% ...

The genomes revealed their physical appearance ... "There are different ideas of what role modern humans played in the extinction of Neanderthals. We find it at least plausible that the relatively ...

FitCoal accurately reconstructs ancient population sizes by analyzing thousands of modern genomes ... bottleneck that nearly brought humans to extinction. Between approximately 930,000 and ...

UC Santa Cruz Humans have long tinkered with ... How could de-extinction technology help? If we could sequence the genomes of rhinos that lived in large and genetically diverse populations ...

To confirm that this genetic variant was truly unique to modern humans, they did an analysis that checked genomes from extinct human species, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. What they found is ...

Native to Vietnam, the saola is a horned species so illusive, it’s been nicknamed the Asian unicorn. Researchers ...

More than 47,000 species are currently threatened with extinction. Just last year, the International Union for Conservation ...

“It’s exciting,” says Erez Lieberman Aiden, a professor of of molecular and human genetics and ... a deeper understanding of the genomes of ancient and extinct species and how those genomes ...