The enzyme AMPD1 plays a key role in muscle energy production and normal muscular function. Loss of AMPD1 activity due to ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

The investigators’ hunt occurs at the same time that an outspoken feminist activist discovers she is being pursued by a ...

A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel, Israel, may represent one of the most significant findings ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.