In 2010, a Swedish geneticist, who had been obsessed in his youth with the idea of recovering genetic material from an Egyptian mummy, achieved a much greater milestone. That year Svante Pääbo ...

Could a Neanderthal gene offer protection against the severity of Covid-19? This video discusses the Gene OAS1 and its protective variant rs10774671-G, examining how it influences the body's response ...

The basic outline of the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals is now well established. The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which ...

A similar study published last year had identified genetic traces of an encounter between the two groups around 250,000 years ago but the contribution of Homo sapiens DNA to Neanderthals around ...

Neanderthals arose about 430,000 years ago, living in Europe and central Asia until their demise some 40,000 years ago.

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Indeed, Thorin's genetic makeup was much closer to the genomes of early Neanderthals from more than 100,000 years ago, suggesting Thorin's community remained isolated from other Neanderthals for ...

And this isn’t the first time Neanderthal genetic variants have been identified as a considerable risk factor for a disease: In 2020, Zeberg co-authored a groundbreaking study in the journal ...