Beyond migrations, Twigstats has clarified debates around Neanderthal admixture in early human history. Using time-restricted genealogies, researchers distinguished between long-standing genetic ...

Over 200 visitors interacted with each other over themes of drug resistant tuberculosis, extra-pulmonary TB and developments ...

Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

This early-branching population has no descendants today. Perhaps most interestingly, the genomes enable scientists to narrow down the date that Neanderthals bred (admixed) with modern humans ...

The paper, by Guido Brandt at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Mainz, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Ancient DNA Reveals Key Stages in the Formation of Central European ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...