Biju Dharmapalan In an era increasingly defined by technological innovation, reading and writing-cornerstones of human ...

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Jay, Florida’s only unique bird species, continues to wait its turn but, year after year, its chances die on the Senate floor ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

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

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Scientists have identified at least three events where genes from distinct Denisovan populations mixed with human DNA, ...

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

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

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

New discoveries reveal that giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with early humans in the Americas for millennia.