If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

"We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements" in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya. Scientists still don't know exactly why Denisovans went extinct. "We have so ...

New evidence confirms suspicions that early modern humans, which left Africa some 300,000 to 750,000 years after Neanderthals, probably interbred with the physically stronger hominid species. The ...

Neanderthal DNA may also make some people more sensitive ... "Viking disease" because it is very common in Northern European ...

According to modern science, the Neanderthals and our prehistoric ... by a mosaic of numerous other European countries. Exactly 1 percent of my DNA was attributed to Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry ...

The Takarkori DNA also showed traces of Neanderthal ancestry that could only have been acquired outside of Africa, as Neanderthals lived in Eurasia. But the mummies' genomes contained 10 times ...

The results reveal where some of the ancestors of each person lived, as well as how much Neanderthal DNA they have inherited. Although Neanderthals eventually became extinct, some of their DNA lives ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these groups mated and exchanged DNA. Advances in genome-sequencing and fossil discoveries have helped ...

“And what’s really exciting is that even though there was this broader scope of traits that was considered, they point to effects of Neanderthal DNA on similar systems to what’s been seen previously.” ...