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

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

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

Researchers say the mysterious group split from the human family tree more than 500,000 years ago, though further evidence is ...

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

But did our direct ancestors interbreed with other long-lost hominin lineages before the first major migrations out of Africa ...

Using a new technique, researchers have pinpointed areas of the modern-day human genome inherited from unknown ancient ...

According to a new study published in Science, all modern humans carry ancient genetic sequences from so-called "ghost ancestors"—lineages of hominins that died out tens and hundreds of thousands of ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost “ghost ancestor” inside us – and by putting all the different bits together, we ...

A study from researchers connected to the University of Tubingen and the University of Cape Town looked at hybridization in Late Pleistocene humans using fossil skulls as well as genetics where ...