Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

The study, published in Current Biology, revealed how genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals influence the size and ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.

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

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period ...

Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...