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A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

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The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts ...