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

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 ... and Zlaty kun individuals showed they have no descendants alive today, indicating their population died out - a lost ...

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.

Rapid natural selection then seems to have kept or booted out Neanderthal genes from our genomes within about 100 generations, bringing it down closer to the level many of us still share today.

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.

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our ... What’s still not clear is whether that period of contact lasted the ...

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.

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 ...

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.