Somewhere between 2% and 19% of the genetic ancestry carried by present-day West African populations traces back to an ...
A new study published in Nature provides the most detailed picture to date of Neanderthal diversity in Western Europe shortly ...
Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...
A genetic study explored how inherited Neanderthal variants can affect the way some modern humans metabolize common drugs.
NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...
Neanderthal men may have had a thing for human women. When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, ...
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...