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

The researchers therefore cross-referenced these ancient genomes with those of present-day humans in search of matching ... that admixture with this second extinct lineage must have occurred ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

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% ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

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 ...