Modern genomes preserve traces of ancient relatives that mixed with human ancestors in Africa and Eurasia.

Tibetan highlander populations have distinct genetic variants in proximity to the EPAS1 gene, facilitating their adaptation ...

The human family tree is gaining new branches. Researchers have found in modern humans' DNA signs of two previously unknown ancestors – extinct human forms with no fossils or decoded DNA, yet they ...

Scientists uncovered DNA from two mysterious human ancestors hidden in modern genomes, revealing new clues about our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new study that ...

For more than 15 years, one of humanity's closest ancient relatives existed only as a name and a strand of DNA. Now, scientists have linked that DNA to a massive fossilised skull once nicknamed ...

Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The technique identified areas of living humans' genomes that came from unknown ...

Malaria is one of the world's most widespread and deadliest parasitic diseases. But some people may have natural protection thanks to DNA inherited from an extinct group of archaic humans known as the ...

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Modern humans already carry small amounts of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, evidence that our ancestors interbred with other ...

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and ...