The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

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New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

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Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.