In an unprecedented event at the Shreveport Aquarium, a swell shark egg has hatched despite the absence of a male shark. The ...

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

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Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Neanderthals  are not totally extinct, in some of us they live on – a little bit.” (Professor Svante Paabo, 2022 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or medicine) Tens of thousands of years ago, an ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Still, more say all-female groups have a positive impact on women’s well-being (67%) than say the same about the impact of male-only groups on men (56%). In thinking about the impact these types of ...

Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report. By Roni Caryn Rabin More Americans are surviving cancer, but the ...

But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. And even today humans are left with some Neanderthal genes, many of ...