NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha and immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath discuss this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology which was awarded to Svante Pääbo for his work on paleogenomics
New findings published in Science Advances indicate that early humans landed in Europe at least 10,000 years earlier than previously thought
Since the ancient period, modern humans have continued to evolve with changes occurring in their DNA. But the question is how unique are we?
Prabir Purkayastha talks about how researchers were able to unearth Neanderthal DNA by excavating cave floors.
A recent study has shed more light on the presence of early humans in the Arabian peninsula after explorers found human footprints on a lakebed surface
A recent study found that Neanderthal genes can confer greater fertility in humans. According to the study, every third woman in Europe carries the gene inherited from the Neanderthals
A new study published in Science Advances has found that in a few populations in West Africa, like the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Mende of Sierra Leone, some of their DNA contained variants that are not found in other living human populations.