Akey’s team found even those reference groups had trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA, likely brought by travelers. With IBDmix, ...

One of the more enduring mysteries about Neanderthals is whether they had a spoken language, a trait that’s impossible to ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

In 2010, the first draft of the Neanderthal genome was published, and comparisons with modern human genomes revealed that Neanderthal and modern humans had interbred in the past. A few months later, ...

Among extant genes known to have originated among Denisovans are sequences common in Tibetan populations that help the body ...

Since its discovery in 1993, the Altamura Man, dating back at least 130,000 years, has continued to captivate scientists and ...

New Zealand's parliament descended into chaos during a vote over a controversial bill that proposed to dramatically change ...

How do we know this? Between 1 percent to 4 percent of modern European and Asian DNA is made up of Neanderthal genes. Neanderthals also interbred with Denisovans, human ancestors who vanished some ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered "hominin" group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...