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

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when ...

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

it uses previously sequenced modern and ancient human genomes to evaluate how the parts of human DNA that contained Neanderthal ancestry evolved over time. In addition to confirming the time ...

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 ...

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

A new study has narrowed the timeline of human-Neanderthal interactions to around 45,000 years ago, offering insights into ...

BAFFLED scientists have unearthed the world’s oldest human DNA in Europe – with a key part of our history and family tree ...

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 ...

This Neanderthal DNA might have given us "better adaptive capabilities outside of Africa," said Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum to the outlet. Early humans "had evolved in Africa ...

“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 ...