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

A resurgence of interest in our ancient relatives is captivating audiences worldwide, and a German museum is at the forefront ...

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, ...

Indeed, genetic research shows that many humans have up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. In fact, while scientists once believed that ...

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

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

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 ...