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Allows scientists to estimate Neanderthals and H. Sapiens interbred about 60,000 years ago.

Geneticists unravel some of them mystery of European origins.

Modern humans arrived in Europe earlier than previously thought.

What killed off the Dorset people?

Anthropologists battled Indians and the government for the right to study the 9,000-year-old skeleton.

A single base pair mutation adjusts red blood cell production in Tibetans.

Whites may have killed blacks with arrows.

Admixture with Denisovans gave Tibetans a special gene that regulates the number of red blood cells.

Nicholas Wade answers his critics.

Reviewer of Wade book: race "is an especially dangerous subject."

The kind of objections we expected from anthropologists.

Charles Murray praises this important book.

It was extinction by miscegenation.

This may explain why Australian Aborigines are so different from other groups.

A piece of Africa came along with North America when the continents split.

Black/white differences also included.

AR reissues our video on this important topic.

There was a different lactose-tolerance mutation in Africa from that of Europe.

Europeans were darker-skinned 5,000 years ago.

The troublesome persistence of genes and race.

Some ancestors of the 12,600-year-old Montana skeleton probably lived in present-day Germany.

The oldest genome found in the New World is ancestor to 80 percent of American Indians.

Fascinating map explains genetic consequences of historic events.

Genes from two groups help Tibetans survive at high altitudes.

There is some Spanish and Italian admixture in isolated East African tribes.

Some Neanderthal genes affecting skin and hair are common in non-Africans.

Light skin may have spread later than we think.

Whites share a gene mutation for light skin with some Middle Easterners and Indians.

Amerindians and Hispanics are most likely to have the variant.

Nicholas Wade's book--to be released in May--is sure to cause a huge stink.

"Neanderthals show some of the lowest genetic diversity of any life form studied."

Human lineage gets more complicated.

Body found in Siberia is evidence Europeans and East Asians mixed before traveling to America.

We've known about Neanderthal and Denisovan mixture, but now there is evidence of a new crossing.

Dogs first tamed in Europe, not Asia, as previously thought.

Adventure novel explores the Solutrean Hypothesis.

Indians acquired some of their European admixture at least 24,000 years ago.

They do not look African.

Barack Obama honors "our rich Nordic-American heritage."

Do they threaten the modern state?

When the conquistadors arrived in the Andes, they were amazed by the light-skinned "Chachapoya."

Are we declining for the same reason as the Romans?

Who were more advanced: early modern humans or Neanderthals?

Tracing the origins of Northern Europeans' ability to drink milk.

Our most recent common ancestor goes back further than we thought.

Not Africans, as some have claimed.

There was a major genetic shift but researchers don't understand the cause or the consequences.

Alain de Benoist would say no.

You have to look back 338,000 years to find a common ancestor between his and other known human Y chromosomes.

Are the races just a bit different after all?

Some researchers say Europeans made the trek more than 20,000 years ago.

Scientists find genetic differences help some groups survive in the cold.

They would have a strong case for reparations.

They had already diverged from the ancestors of whites.

"Jurassic Park"-like effort could revive the long-extinct species.

It was longer than Henry VIII's flagship created 500 years later.

A new honor for our President.

The redhead mummy nicknamed "Ginger" lived near the Nile.

. . . but Walter Williams can . . . about slavery.

Ancient skeleton was not related to modern-day Native Americans.

It also revealed previously undiscovered etchings.

Human origins are a lot more complicated than "out of Africa."

And interbred with some modern Africans--including pygmies.

Egypt's pyramids are "symbols of pagan idolatry" and must be torn down.

The labor of thousands was required to move the stones.

The "Welsh carry DNA which could be traced back to the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago."

Might even have been done by Neanderthals.

For anthropoids in general, at least.

Authors say it's unlikely the theory is true.

Study finds evidence that national IQ is influenced by population's genetics.

It might result in "evolutionarily novel behavior and beliefs."

"Individuals prefer the company of others of the same race," Harvard biologist says.

This Homo species may have evolved in Asia.

Evidence suggests they crossed the Mediterranean in boats 100,000 years ago.

5,300-year-old corpse is most similar to modern Sardinians.