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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child ...

Genetic material recovered from 40,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Romania harbors about ... and it’s really quite remarkable that they were lucky to find a hybrid that was so recent to be able ...

They also mimic the way human tau protein becomes abnormal and spreads through the brain. The first part of the project will look at whether different features of brain nerve cells allow tau to spread ...

Japan's government approved a request for stem-cell experiments meant to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. The experiment, which still requires approval from the ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued scientists. Thanks to an innovative dating method, its age has finally ...

Scientists are seeking permission to generate human embryonic stem cells to study disease by introducing human genetic material into an animal oocyte. This has raised ethical questions that centre ...

Researchers precisely date Neanderthal-Human hybrid using advanced radiocarbon analysis. (photo credit: João Zilhão and Cidália Duarte) Radiocarbon dating using a new method has provided the ...

In an era when artificial intelligence increasingly permeates our daily lives, a new paradigm is due to emerge: hybrid intelligence. This concept represents the powerful synthesis of human ...