Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Study Reveals Neanderthals Had a Good Sea Food Diet of Sharks, Dolphins and Seals Groundbreaking research showed that ...

While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

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The Great Filter theory suggests that our lack of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations may arise from either their ...

The Caveman Diet, also known as the Paleo Diet, is a weight-loss craze where calorie-counters pick foods they think early ...

Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart from our ancient counterparts.

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This finding suggests that Homo sapiens had a taste for starch much before the domestication of crops shaped the human diet.

Thanks to AI developments, we are witnessing a dramatic increase in the pace and scalability of genomic techniques, which ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...