Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient tooth proteins from China suggest Homo erectus may have passed genetic variants into Denisovans and later some humans.

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Ancient genetic clues: Protein analysis from six Homo erectus teeth in China shows genetic variants linking them to Denisovans and, indirectly, to modern humans. New research methods: Scientists used ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

Homo erectus is arguably the first hominin that really started to resemble us, with shorter arms and longer legs than species that came before. It was also the first human ancestor known to have ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...

As the last ones standing, we Homo sapiens like to think of ourselves as the winners, but the truth is that one of our ...

A handful of ancient teeth from China are giving scientists an unusual look at one of the hardest chapters in human evolution to read. For decades, Homo erectus has stood at the center of that mystery ...