sapiens. So we can look for bits of Neanderthal DNA sequence in the genomes of modern humans. The genomes of all human ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Neanderthals  are not totally extinct, in some of us they live on – a little bit.” (Professor Svante Paabo, 2022 Nobel ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

“The study expands our knowledge of the extent to which Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed functionally relevant genetic variation to modern humans,” Svante Pääbo ... “It shows that the ...

This updated timeline for Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding "shifts and narrows ... This Neanderthal DNA might have given us "better adaptive capabilities outside of Africa," said Chris ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it ...

When modern humans left Africa and interbred with ... scientists have previously recovered and analyzed DNA from Neanderthal remains that date back 400,000 years. Lost branch of the human family ...

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 ...

Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. Scientific evidence suggests our two species shared a common ancestor. Current evidence from both fossils and DNA suggests that Neanderthal and ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...