The discovery of Neanderthal remains sparked a wave of curiosity about these ancient relatives. What set them apart? What ...

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 ...

For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images ... the scientific community set out to map the genetic remnants interwoven ...