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

Well, the first thing to point out is that no one has the brain of a Neanderthal, just some hints of this ancestry. The current evidence suggests some people with European ancestry have more ...

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

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Some look distinct, but some have Neanderthal features, and still others have Homo ... The multiregional scientific model, which suggested discrete ancestry roots for the Chinese people, dovetailed ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

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 ...