“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire ...

Specialists in skin and metabolic syndrome disorders have corrected the notion that vitiligo is caused by witchcraft, ...

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late Neolithic times—from around 5,600 ...

Researchers have conducted a conservation genomics study on two critically endangered island oaks—Quercus bawanglingensis and ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed the dental remains of 20 individuals of Homo naledi and concluded that all ...