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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

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 ...