homo sapiens

  • Neanderthal Genes Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Morning People

    Neanderthal Genes Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Morning People

    If you’re irritated by the morning people in your life, you might have Neanderthals to blame for their existence, at least a little bit. New research suggests that our hominin relatives possessed genetic variations that predisposed them to waking up early and that they passed on these genes to our Homo sapiens ancestors through interbreeding.…


  • Turns Out The First British People Were Actually Black

    Turns Out The First British People Were Actually Black

    A DNA sample from a 10,000-year-old skeleton discovered in Gough Cave near Cheddar Gorge, England, offers a remarkable revelation: The first modern British people had “dark brown to black skin”. According to recent analysis, they also had dark curly hair and blue eyes. In other words, whiteness in Europe is a much newer thing than…