Modern humans still carry DNA from two previously unknown extinct human lineages, according to a new study from the ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every ...

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic ...

Humans carry the DNA of two mysterious “ghost” ancestors who passed on their genes before going extinct, researchers have said.

Published in the journal Science, the study used a newly developed genetic analysis method called TRACE to identify inherited ...

The human family tree is gaining new branches. Researchers have found in modern humans' DNA signs of two previously unknown ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published today in Science Advances, reveals something far more ...

New research has identified two sections of the human genome we seem to have inherited from ancient human lineages we know very little about.

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...