Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...

Beyond migrations, Twigstats has clarified debates around Neanderthal admixture in early human history. Using time-restricted genealogies, researchers distinguished between long-standing genetic ...

Fifteen ancient genomes spread across the Americas revealed two distinct migrations from North to South America, highlighting the complexity of early human migrations and suggesting that early people ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

This early-branching population has no descendants today. Perhaps most interestingly, the genomes enable scientists to narrow down the date that Neanderthals bred (admixed) with modern humans ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...