Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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