After surviving for nearly 400,000 years across Eurasia, Neanderthals vanished some 40,000 years ago, just as Homo sapiens began to spread across the continent. A recent study now suggests that their ...

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Using 150 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers across 252 tea accessions from India and China, researchers identified ...

Using 150 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers across 252 tea accessions from India and China, researchers identified six major genetic groups, including the small-leafed sinensis and five ...

AI depiction of a Neanderthal individual. For over a century, we’ve told ourselves a comfortable evolutionary story about our species. Neanderthals were hanging around when our ancestors showed up, ...

Scientists have long speculated what caused the downfall of the Neanderthals, but a new study suggests they never truly went extinct at all. Scientists in Italy and Switzerland claim the ancient group ...