Neanderthals died out some 30,000 years ago, but their genes live on within many of us.. DNA from our shorter, stockier cousins may be influencing skin tone, ease of tanning, hair color and ...

Neanderthal Genes Live On In Our Hair And Skin : Shots - Health News Scientists know that a small percentage of humans' genes came from Neanderthals. But they were surprised to find that one-fifth ...

Even though the Neanderthals went extinct about 30,000 years ago, they left traces of their genetic code in non-African DNA — and now scientists are starting to discover exactly what that code does.

Neanderthal DNA could influence your skin tone, hair color, sleep patterns, mood and even smoking behavior, a new study finds. The finding sheds light on the role Neanderthal genetic variants play ...

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

Unless you are of purely African descent, you probably have some Neanderthal DNA. It can affect your hair, height and whether you sneeze after eating chocolate.

Scientists with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany in 2017 identified Neanderthal alleles — variant forms of genes — that contribute to hair and skin tones.

Many of the genes that help determine most people's skin and hair are more Neanderthal than not, according to two new studies that look at the DNA fossils hidden in the modern human genome.

Some of the DNA is found in parts of the human genome that are associated with skin and hair, maybe giving our ancestors thicker hair and skin that helped them cope better with the colder climate.

We know that Neanderthal DNA has influenced us modern humans in quite a few ways, but did their DNA influence our skin tones or our hair color? Why are Neanderthals often depicted with white or ...

As Ludovic Slimak tells us in “The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature,” this image has persisted for nearly a century, “put forth by successive generations of ...

A double-barreled comparison of ancient Neanderthal DNA with hundreds of modern-day genomes suggests that many of us have Neanderthal skin and hair traits — but other parts of the Neanderthal ...