Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Neanderthals disappeared, but why? Among the many hypotheses put forward, a new study points to a biological factor that has been little explored until now. French researchers analyzed their blood ...

With these findings, the scientific community set out to map ... of human adaptation and evolution. Just as every family carries forward ancestral traits, the presence of Neanderthal DNA ...

How different are we from Neanderthals? The answer is “not as much as we used to think”. Or, to put it another way, the more we learn about this group of archaic humans, the more similarities ...

A genetic tree shows blood group alleles among Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: S. Mezières et al. While this interbreeding contributed to genetic diversity in ...

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

The work by the team involved sequencing the genes of two types of early human relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, and comparing them with the sequences from the human ancestor, Homo sapiens.

A group of researchers did just that, by analyzing genetic information from three groups of Early Man — most recently Neanderthal and Homo sapiens (earlier work also included ... and a possible ...

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5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological ... humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team ...