Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw ...

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 ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and Upper Paleolithic time periods. This time marks the eventual disappearance ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Earlier analysis of DNA in the modern human and Neanderthal genomes suggested that the two species interbred between 50,500 and 43,500 years ago. The new findings could push back this genetic mingling ...