Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

In people who inherited Neanderthal DNA, the X-chromosome also contains a lot less Neanderthal ... cousins were like.

“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 ... that came up was what effect ...

Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a mystery that has long intrigued scientists — a tiny slice of Neanderthal DNA that persists ... what our paths look like,” said an author of the ...

That was a radical notion at the time, but advances in genetics have since proven those populations existed — and people today still carry Neanderthal DNA ... the child felt like giving them ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques ... such as a human-like prominent chin ...