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

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

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

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

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

and compared them to good quality DNA sequences from a few Neanderthals and 275 people today with very little Neanderthal ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared history.

"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." ...

“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 ...