Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting ...

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

Two mysterious human relatives left their genetic footprints in the modern human genome alongside the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans, underscoring the fact that our ancestors interbred with many ...

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic legacy shows that our evolutionary past was shaped by repeated mixing ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

Researchers find surprising links which show that Neandertal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognised. Viruses account for an estimated 10-20% of the ...

A new computational approach that can detect ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without requiring archaic reference genomes reveals a more complex picture of human evolution than previously ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans that replaced them. Deep down in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...