In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...

Pre-Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia around 500,000 years to 250,000 years ago. During the end of that period, pre-Neanderthals slowly began the evolutionary process into early Neanderthals, which ...