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Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

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

A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long enough for their DNA to drift far beyond the range of genetic diversity ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

Analysis - New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who ...

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...

Helena Malmström, Researcher at Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, sampling at the Florisbad research station using the mobile clean lab. In southern Africa, a group of people lived ...

Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder has investigated a gene passed from Denisovan populations to modern humans, which underwent positive selection in Indigenous American ...

The mysteries of our ancient ancestors—Neanderthals and Denisovans—have long fascinated scientists. Recent research has offered an unexpected peek into their genetics by introducing ancient genes into ...

This valuable study uses tools of population and functional genomics to examine long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the context of human evolution. Analyses of computationally predicted human-specific ...

1256 target genes whose DBSs have the largest distances from modern humans to chimpanzees and Altai Neanderthals are enriched in different Biological Processes GO terms. Upon significance threshold = ...