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

Researchers at the Department of Paleobiology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid report that analysis of a ...

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

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

Many millennia have passed since these inter-hominid affairs, yet we all still bear ... up mating with Neanderthals in different regions of Eurasia. As a result, those of us alive today display ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genomes of seven people who lived in Europe between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago, ...

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

“And that there was enough mating that it contributed to the disappearance of Neanderthals by incorporating them into human populations. But that’s still speculative.” ...

They found Neanderthal genes related to immunity and metabolism that may have helped early humans survive and thrive outside of Africa. We still carry Neanderthals’ legacy in our DNA.

Today, people from around the world who are descended from the group of humans that left Africa and successfully settled Eurasia still contain a vestige of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes.

However, there is still much ... ancestry in people alive today. Other lineages of ancient humans also went extinct around 40,000 years ago and disappeared just like the Neanderthals ultimately ...