The UC Berkeley/MPI-EVA team also analyzed regions of the modern human genome that contain genes inherited from Neanderthals and some areas that are totally devoid of Neanderthal genes.

Neanderthal Genes Live On The UC Berkeley and Max Planck Institute team took their analysis a step further and uncovered areas of the modern human genome that carry Neanderthal genes and areas that ...

The UC Berkeley/MPI-EVA team also analyzed regions of the modern human genome that contain genes inherited from Neanderthals and some areas that are totally devoid of Neanderthal genes.

The research in Science found that genetic variants inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors are unevenly distributed across the human genome. Some regions, which the scientists call “archaic ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

These genetic changes emerged soon after the divergence and are believed to underpin key aspects of modern human biology and behavior. Researchers observed that the Altai Neanderthal genome ...

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

Research into hundreds of genomes spanning 50,000 years of human history indicates ... the roughly 45,000-year-old fossil Neanderthal named Thorin, whose genome was analyzed earlier this year.

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 ... About 2 per cent of the genetic blueprint, or genome, of non-African people living today came from ...