In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.