Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, ...

Human DNA that has seeped into the environment through ... which means that we can easily determine if a male or female (was) walking in the sun or (their) presence in a room depending on whether ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

For the Human Genome Project, researchers collected blood (female) or sperm (male) samples from a large number of donors. Only a few samples were processed as DNA resources, and the source names ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Few human remains this old have usable DNA, and “it’s in a gap where we ... and the researchers argue the care of the burial confirms female babies, and likely male babies, had “personhood ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

It was also home to early human communities, including 15 women and children archaeologists ... started in 2003, with the two female mummies among the first finds. “We found the first mummy on the ...