Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

After humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, we started having sex with Neanderthals – a now extinct archaic but closely-related species. Now, scientists claim to have ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.

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Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding between ...