Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

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 ...

“The study expands our knowledge of the extent to which Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed functionally ... “It shows that the contribution [of hominin DNA] is substantial and is larger than I ...

Neanderthal DNA makes up a small percentage of the DNA in non-African people today, suggesting that people who migrated beyond Africa 50,000 to 60,000 years ago interbred with Neanderthals ...

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 ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...