Recent scientific findings suggest that Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than their Homo sapiens ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and ...

Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. Bryant, hoping ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...