For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no ...

Laurent Frantz receives funding from the European Research Council, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Greger Larson and Lachie Scarsbrook do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Prehistoric Jomon People of Japan Show Little to No Denisovan Ancestry, New Study Finds - © Fu et al, Cell (2025) CC-by-4.0 A newly published genetic study has ...

Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry—published March 28 in Current Biology—suggests that many bloodlines around the world, particularly of ...

An analysis of the blood types of one Denisovan and three Neanderthal individuals has uncovered new clues to the evolutionary history, health, and vulnerabilities of their populations. Silvana Condemi ...

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