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WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - How do Tibetans thrive in high-altitude, low-oxygen conditions that would make others wither? Well, they may have received some help from an unexpected source.

Ancient human DNA has been found in cave dirt in Croatia, but without any skeletal remains, scientists say A group of German scientists have found the DNA of extinct humans - without finding any ...

With eight billion people now walking the Earth, the thought of humans going extinct anytime soon seems rather unlikely. Barring nuclear annihilation, being overrun by artificial intelligence or a ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever has. However, the other members of our species' lineage weren't nearly as ...

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

If you were able to visit ``the world one year after humanity became extinct'', Mr. Basmajian points out that the first thing you would notice is not your eyes, but your ears. ``The world where humans ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Modern humans has been the spread around the world to Africa as a source, but in the process became extinct about 20,000 years ago, Neanderthals and, branching off from the Neanderthal denisovan has ...