Closely related to both modern humans and Neanderthals, the Denisovans were a group of hominins who lived across Asia from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hidden within the genomes of people alive today are fragments of DNA from two unidentified human ancestors. Researchers at UC ...

According to a new study published in Science, all modern humans carry ancient genetic sequences from so-called "ghost ancestors"—lineages of hominins that died out tens and hundreds of thousands of ...

Genetic evidence suggests modern humans inherited material from previously unidentified 'ghost', 'super-archaic' populations ...

The research reveals the complex process of human evolution across millions of years of interbreeding with other Homo ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among ...

New research has identified two sections of the human genome we seem to have inherited from ancient human lineages we know very little about.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

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 ...