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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...