For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the opportunity to hook up with their Neanderthal and Denisovan relatives.
The lack of diversity in the red blood cells of Neanderthals and Denisovans over the same time span could indicate inbreeding and declining population numbers, eventually leading to the extinction ...
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 ...
(Credit: Igor Boshin/Shutterstock) 10. Denisova Cave’s Hybrid Discovery A fragment of bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed that a child born 90,000 years ago had a Neanderthal mother and a ...