We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

Two teams using different methods both conclude that humans and Neanderthals had children together starting roughly 50,000 ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...