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

The EDAR gene, previously linked to incisor shape in East Asian people, also influences the width of all teeth, according to ...

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

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

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

A new pair of studies published in the journal Science sheds light on the duration of gene flow between Neanderthals and humans, confirming that it lasted from approximately 50,500 years to 43,500 ...

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

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

Although plenty of genes are shared between modern humans and Neanderthals, the H. sapiens genome does not have any Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA, which raises the question of how and why this ...

Human and Neanderthal heads in museum display case. Although plenty of genes are shared between modern humans and Neanderthals, the H. sapiens genome does not have any Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our understanding of when modern humans reached regions like East Asia and Aus ...