People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...