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

This process of discovery has increased significantly since we learnt that some humans have Neanderthal DNA, a genetic fingerprint left behind when ancient humans intermixed with this now-extinct ...

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

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

sapiens from 46,000 years to 16,500 years ago, Neanderthals from 120,000 years to 40,000 years ago, and a possible descendent of both Denisovans and Neanderthals from about 98,000 years ago. The DNA ...

Hybridization signals observed in ancient DNA could also be false positives ... into account are essential to improve our understanding of human evolution, and that hybridization between Neanderthals ...

AI imagery has already been used to illustrate popular articles, such as covering scientific discoveries about Neanderthals .

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.

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, ...