This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species happened during a short period sometime between 50,000 and 43,500 years ago.

Today, all humans except those with only African heritage bear the marks of this union in their DNA. The study's findings ...

New research provides an updated timeline of human-Neanderthal interactions, revealing patterns in the genetic legacy of this ancient exchange.Tens of ...

Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

“It suggests that hybrid individuals who had Neanderthal DNA in these regions were substantially less fit, likely to due to severe disease, lethality, or infertility,” Capra said via emai ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

Today, this is reflected by a small amount of Neanderthal DNA (1 percent to 2 percent) retained in most people living outside of Africa, though this varies slightly by population. East Asians, for ...

Analysis of early modern human genomes suggests that Neanderthal DNA was introduced to populations in Europe around 43,500 to ...