Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

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

Thanks to AI developments, we are witnessing a dramatic increase in the pace and scalability of genomic techniques, which ...

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

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

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

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

"The Neanderthal DNA they carry could therefore have been introduced by a separate event from that which introduced the Neanderthal DNA identified in all present-day Out-of-Africa populations." ...

("Should AI be used to resurrect extinct species like the Neanderthal?" Dec. 26.) The author mentions swapping out "parts of human DNA with Neanderthal DNA." It may be a semantic point, but while ...

“It suggests that hybrid individuals who had Neanderthal DNA in these regions were substantially less fit, likely to due to severe disease, lethality, or infertility,” Capra said via emai ...

Thanks to new AI developments, we are witnessing an increase in the pace of genomic techniques, but shall we try the AI ...