In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this ...

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

This paints a remarkable scene of two ancient human species possibly interacting ... carry at least one to two percent of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. But rarely can fossils capture such ...

It's unclear why they started and why they stopped. And we'll likely never know if this mingling was consensual or what Neanderthal-human relationships looked like. But at least we know this much ...

Today, we know that an average of 1–3% of the human genome can be traced to Neanderthal ancestry and that the amount varies among people throughout the world. But exactly when that interbreeding ...

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 ...

New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when this mixing occurred — with the height of the interaction around 47,000 years ago — and showing how Neanderthal components have ...

shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study: PITX2 expression and Neanderthal introgression in HS3ST3A1 contribute to variation in tooth dimensions in modern humans. Image ...

and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently recovered a nearly complete DNA sequence ...

In 2019 and 2021, Elmentaite and her colleagues published papers that mapped some cells in the human gut ... what the genome looks like, is evolving constantly. So we have to map it back to ...

"Most people that live today outside of Africa have about 1 to 2% of their genome inherited from a Neanderthal ancestor ... with rare well-preserved early human remains from Germany and the ...