In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

Genetic material recovered from 40,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Romania harbors about 6-9 percent Neanderthal ... “I think the conclusions are quite clear, and it’s really quite remarkable ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

The proposals under consideration involve replacing the nucleus of an animal egg with the nucleus from a human somatic cell (), and allowing such an entity to develop in vitro for approximately 5 ...

a mixture of both human and Neanderthal features suggesting a “hybrid” between the two evolutionary relatives. For example, the child’s lower limbs were much shorter than those of a modern ...