A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Analysis of DNA from Neanderthal bones revealed that a group in Western Europe were surprisingly healthy, shortly before they ...

DNA recovered from remains in Belgium and France offers a very different picture of Neanderthal life during the species’ final millennia.

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped by a "residual echo" from ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Our Neanderthal heritage has stuck with us after 30,000 years according to DNA results. Source: Photo by Crawford Jolly on Unsplash You might not know it but you could carry a Neanderthal gene that ...