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 ...

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 ...

For instance, traits related to immune response and skin colour are particularly enriched with Neanderthal ancestry in modern human genomes. These adaptations may have helped early Homo sapiens ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

Ben’s chance encounter may inspire him to keep looking for traces of our distant ancestry. He was once a curious six-year-old on a family outing, but now he’s the proud discoverer of a Neanderthal ...

Croatia offers citizenship by ancestry to descendants of anyone born in the territory now defined as the Republic of Croatia and who emigrated from the area before October 8, 1991. You can claim ...

Studies indicate how such changes dictated migration patterns in Europe and facilitated interbreeding between Neanderthals and Denisovans in Eurasia. Credit: SciTechDaily.com New research using ...

The analyses show that at the end of the Bronze Age, broad-scale ancestry proportions are similar to contemporary populations in the rest of Europe – a mixture of European hunter-gatherer, Anatolian ...