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!

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...