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

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

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 ...

Previously, scientists — using single ancient samples or genomes from people alive today ... there's still more to understand about how Neanderthal genes affect us in the 21st century.

This week, learn why Greenland sharks can live for centuries, discover when Neanderthals and humans met, see the most ...

Scientists have known since the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010 that early humans interbred with Neanderthals, a bombshell revelation that bequeathed a genetic legacy still ...

*While people bleat on about “genocide” with around 40,000 dead in Gaza, many of them being terrorists, the Syrian civil war ...

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 ...