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DNA of homo sapiens is never found in Neanderthal specimens, despite Neanderthal DNA being found in humans

The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable.

The sequencing of the oldest human DNA in the UK so far has shown that two distinct populations of humans lived in Britain following recolonisation at the end of the Ice Age. The two populations lived only around 1,000 years apart, and yet were...

More than 50,000 years ago, a Siberian cave housed the real-life Flintstones.

For the first time, scientists have been able to directly document the fabric of a Neanderthal family and community, making our ancient cousins seem much more human in a new study detailing the DNA of a father and his teenage daughter from the oldest known family group.

Swedish geneticist Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution.

His discovery was made public in 2010, after Pääbo pioneered methods to extract, sequence and analyze ancient DNA from Neanderthal bones.

Facial bones dating back 1.4 million years are the oldest human fossils ever unearthed on the European continent and could end up changing the book of h

One small variation in DNA may have helped Homo sapiens out-compete our ancient relatives

Results believed to be first compelling evidence that modern humans were cognitively better than Neanderthals