Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

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The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Cocoa – the primary ingredient in dark chocolate – contains theobromine, a key compound naturally produced by plants. New ...

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From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

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Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...