Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Recent genetic studies highlight how Neanderthal DNA contributes to the sensitivity experienced by modern humans, showcasing ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

A 200,000-year-old molar from Denisova Cave has provided a glimpse into the life of Denisovans, revealing startling new ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, hundreds of human papillomaviruses, or HPV, can live in and on the human body ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Fossils and genetic evidence reveal that human evolution was not a simple replacement of one species by another. Studies of late Pleistocene skulls show clear signs of hybridization between Homo ...