Recent research from The Rockefeller University suggests a unique mutation in the NOVA1 gene, specific to humans, played a ...

The Denisovans were close relatives of Neanderthals. The researchers announced the discovery in 2010. In 2013, a study proposed that the Denisovan lineage led to the existence of Neanderthals.

The origin of humanity can be summarized as a long story of hybridization and migrations. The more data we have about the ...

The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.

Until now, scientists haven’t understood how Denisovans, whose remains had previously been found only in western China and Siberia, contacted and interbred with modern humans who migrated east from ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...