Closely related to both modern humans and Neanderthals, the Denisovans were a group of hominins who lived across Asia from ...

We first learned about our enigmatic human cousins, the Denisovans, from the sliver of a finger. In 2010, DNA recovered from ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting ...

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic legacy shows that our evolutionary past was shaped by repeated mixing ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (ansap/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...

What can archaic introgression tell us about archaic humans and about ourselves? Every person alive today inherited some portion of their genomes from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic ...

Archaeologist James Cole calculated the caloric value of an adult human body. This research suggested humans offered fewer ...

Researchers find surprising links which show that Neandertal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognised. Viruses account for an estimated 10-20% of the ...