For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

But a new study, published last week in PNAS, reports that Neanderthal ancestry in Europe likely experienced a quick purge from modern humans’ genomes but then held steady since then. Neanderthal DNA ...

The group had traveled for thousands of miles, crossing Africa and the Middle East until finally reaching the dimly lit ...

it’s more than some scientists expected—and quite a bit more than the zero assumed by the statistical methods that have been used to identify Neanderthal ancestry in modern human genomes. “We always ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

Well, you should—because it might be partially determined by your Neanderthal ancestry. An international team of researchers co-led by Kaustubh Adhikari of University College London (UCL) have ...

To trace their ancient ancestry, six friends of the Museum ... The results reveal where some of the ancestors of each person lived, as well as how much Neanderthal DNA they have inherited.

As a consequence of this encounter, modern populations outside Africa carry about 2–3% Neanderthal ancestry in their genomes. The ancient populations expanding out of Africa subsequently ...

The figure depicts the deep ancestries of the ancient individuals of the Americas and archaic ancestry in ancient South America and Panama. The pie chart radius reflects the proportion of shared ...

It's only natural that we're curious about Neanderthals, our hominid kin who, on an evolutionary time scale, died off so recently. How intelligent were they? Did they interact with Cro Magnons?