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Your mental illnesses may be a result of ancient cross-species fornication, a study has found
The story of human evolution is an intricate tapestry woven with a ton of interbreeding with other …
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An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago
Scientists were looking at how humans in southeast Asia today have some genes of an ancient human s…
Marianne Guenot
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Researchers have found the remains of a teenager that died 7,200 years ago, revealing a group of humans previously unknown to science
The young woman was likely part of the prehistoric Toleans, which mysteriously disappeared 1,500 ye…
Marianne Guenot
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At most, just 7% of the human genome is unique to our species. We share most genes with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other ancestors.
A study suggests just 1.5% to 7% of the human genome is unique to our species. The remaining genes …
Aylin Woodward
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3 species of human ancestors may have mixed and mingled in one Siberian cave 45,000 years ago - altering our evolution
A study suggests our mysterious cousins, the Denisovans, first occupied Denisova Cave. Then Neander…
Aylin Woodward
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'Dragon Man,' a mysterious new human species found in China, could be a closer relative of ours than Neanderthals
A species of human ancestor called Homo longi, or "Dragon Man," lived in China 146,000 years ago. I…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient tools and DNA discovered in a Tibetan cave shed unprecedented light on humans' most enigmatic ancestor, the Denisovans
Anthropologists found an ancient jawbone, tools, and DNA in a Tibetan cave. They come from Denisova…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient humans had sex and interbred with a mysterious group known as the Denisovans more than once, new research has found
We've known for years now that early humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans - other homi…
Kevin Loria
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400,000-Year-Old Hominin DNA Throws Everything We Know About Human Evolution Into Disarray
This builds upon other findings, presented Nov. 18 at a meeting on ancient DNA at the Royal Society…
Jennifer Welsh
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Researchers Just Released The First High-Quality Neanderthal Genome Sequence
"We are in the process of comparing this Neanderthal genome to the Denisovan genome as well as to t…
Jennifer Welsh
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If you're an early riser, you may have Neanderthal DNA to thank for it
Many of us carry Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA, and some of it may be linked with being an early ris…
Marianne Guenot
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The early ancestors of humans were reduced to 1,300 individuals and came close to extinction, scientists say
The evolutionary bottleneck 900,000 years ago might have been caused by an extreme climate event, r…
Alia Shoaib
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An ancient skull unlike any human ever seen is baffling scientists and could rewrite the story of our evolution
The skull, found in China in 2019, looks like an ancient modern human but has the chin of a Denisov…
Insider Inc.
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Some Neanderthals couldn't smell their own stink, suggests a new study recreating early humans' noses
Understanding what early humans smelled can offer better context for our own sense of smell, and gi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How interbreeding between humans and our Neanderthal cousins 40,000 years ago affects our health today
The 40,000-year-old genetic inheritance bestowed on humans by the Neanderthals is highlighted by a …
Isobel van Hagen
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Our human ancestors were almost wiped out about 930,000 years ago, leaving just a tiny group of reproductive individuals, new study suggests
Almost a million years later, that tiny group of human ancestors has now grown to 8 billion people …
Katie Balevic
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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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An extinct species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans. The findings challenge our understanding of human evolution, researchers say.
Homo naledi had much smaller brains than modern-day humans. Burials and carvings were previously th…
Alia Shoaib
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A mysterious 40,000-year-old hip bone suggests human ancestors and Neanderthals shared a cave — and perhaps a culture
The hip bone was found in the Grotte du Renne in France, a cave considered by some to be the last b…