Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

The X-Files Season 2 episode “Duane Barry” was based on the true story of Phineas Gage. Gage was a 19th-century railway worker who had a metal rod driven through his brain. He somehow survived, but it ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...