Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Homo sapiens And Homo neanderthalensis they are two species of hominids who shared our planet for tens of thousands of ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

A study reveals that the majority of genes transmitted to us by Neanderthals through hybridization between the two species ...

Bertranpetit pointed to modern humans as an example ... information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be considered separate species. Amanda Heidt is a Utah ...

These early Homo sapiens pioneers in Europe faced harsh Ice ... "There are different ideas of what role modern humans played in the extinction of Neanderthals. We find it at least plausible ...