Yet, the question persists: How much Neanderthal DNA do we ... the scientific community set out to map the genetic remnants ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

Influenced by our environment and how we adapt to it, our DNA changes through the generations. Scientists can use the differences that have built up over thousands of years to map the journeys ... as ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Scientists have previously suggested Neanderthal DNA was gradually removed from modern human genomes during the last 45,000 years. But a new study, published last week in PNAS, reports that ...

The research used genetic sleuthing to offer a rare snapshot of Neanderthal ... to pull DNA out of tiny bone fragments found in two Russian caves. In their study, published Wednesday in the journal ...

Neanderthal DNA makes up approximately two per cent of the genome of people of non-African descent. Not only that, but some of our physical traits and mental health issues — like depression and ...