Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of ...

Genomes were compared with Asian ... Her books “How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction” (Princeton University Press 2015, 2020) and “Life As We Made It” (Basic Books 2021) explore how ...

Our genome is different than that of the extinct beast ... challenged the model to create a full set of human mitochondrial DNA. With only 13 protein-coding genes and a handful of RNA types, these ...

While earlier research has already shown that Neanderthals and Denisovans—two now-extinct human ... data and applied it to real human genetic data from the 1000 Genomes Project.