Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

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 ...

By analyzing the frequency, length, and distribution of Neanderthal ancestry segments, the team aimed to answer key questions about the timing, duration, and functional legacy of this gene flow.

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

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 ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

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. Although ...

It separated from Neanderthals about 300,000 years ago, but there are also some populations of modern humans today that carry some of that DNA, some ancestry from those Denisovans. And that ...

When paleoanthropologists removed the bones from the dirt, they immediately noticed that the child's skeleton had a "mosaic" of Neanderthal and human features, suggesting it was a hybrid individual.

He adds that “the fact that this risk comes from DNA that originated in Neanderthals is very interesting and highlights how complex human ancestry is.” To probe the specific genetic variants or ...