A massive DNA discovery just rewrote everything we thought we knew about the Japanese peopleA groundbreaking DNA study has uncovered evidence of a third ancestral group contributing to Japan's population, originating from northeast...
18 May, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
What the X chromosome revealed about Neanderthals and early humansNew genetic research reveals ancient human and Neanderthal interactions followed a surprising pattern. Scientists found more modern human D...
11 May, 2026, 03.44 AM IST
Scientists Found DNA in Humans That Doesn’t Belong to Any Known AncestorRecent genetic studies reveal that early humans interbred with an unknown hominin species, adding a complex layer to our origins. These fin...
11 Mar, 2026, 03.49 PM IST
Humans’ survival secret may lie in a single gene; Scientists find subtle mutation may explain why other hominins vanishedA new study reveals a subtle genetic mutation in modern humans' brain chemistry, specifically affecting the ADSL enzyme. This mutation, uni...
23 Aug, 2025, 06.40 AM IST
Five ancient human species that lived alongside modern humans revealed: New insights into our prehistoric cousinsScientific research confirms that modern humans coexisted with other ancient human species. These species include Neanderthals, Denisovans,...
29 Jul, 2025, 02.03 AM IST
Are you a morning person? That may just be your 'Neanderthal Genes' manifestingSince the 1990s, studies of Neanderthal DNA have exposed our species' intertwined history.
22 Dec, 2023, 07.28 PM IST
Is this the real-life Flintstones? Geneticists discover remains of a Neanderthal family in caves of SiberiaAmong the 13 Neanderthals discovered , five were children or pre-teens.
20 Oct, 2022, 11.03 AM IST
Meet Svante Paabo, the Swedish scientist who won Nobel in medicine. His father got it in 1982Techniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins - the Denisovans as...
04 Oct, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
Nobel Prize winner Svante Paabo's work: Neanderthal genome, DenisovansSvante Paabo and colleagues extracted and sequenced the first Neanderthal genome from ancient bones. He also brought to light the existence...
03 Oct, 2022, 08.21 PM IST
Nobel prize in medicine awarded for research on evolutionSwedish scientist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insi...
03 Oct, 2022, 05.25 PM IST
- Researchers find human evolution to be uneven, punctuated
London, Nov 18 (IANS) Researchers have found Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer in the Southern Iberia region, modern day Sp...
18 Nov, 2017, 04.22 PM IST
You are more neanderthal than you think! Humans interbred with their kind in Western AsiaRelations that our ancestors had with Neanderthals may continue to exert an influence on our well-being today.
25 Oct, 2017, 07.01 PM IST
- How humans got rid of many Neanderthal genes after inter-breeding
New York, Nov 9 (IANS) Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after inter-bre...
09 Nov, 2016, 04.28 PM IST
Andaman tribes may have a new human ancestorScientists at NIBMG, West Bengal, working with those from the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, made this discovery after analysing genetic s...
27 Jul, 2016, 10.30 AM IST
Diseases carried by humans linked to Neanderthal extinctionScientists from universities of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes in the UK have reviewed the latest evidence gleaned from pathogen genomes and ...
11 Apr, 2016, 01.42 PM IST
Neanderthals and humans interbred 100,000 years ago, says studyPeople living today who are of European, Eurasian and Asian descent have well-identified Neanderthal-derived segments in their genome.
18 Feb, 2016, 03.04 PM IST
DNA analysis of 40,000 years old jawbone suggests that Humans interbred with NeanderthalsEarly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals when they first came to Europe, DNA analysis of a 40,000-year-old jawbone suggests.
23 Jun, 2015, 04.50 PM IST