But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Starosele on the Crimean Peninsula has provided plentiful insights into Neanderthal migration. Findings regarding this have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once interbred was a scientific bombshell — the revelation of a genetic legacy that’s since been found to play a role in the lives of modern ...

When modern humans first ventured out of Africa, they followed in the footsteps of another human species who dared leave before them. Eventually our bold ancestors caught up with their Neanderthal ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

A fossil Neanderthal named for a Tolkien character indicates that geographically close groups of the ancient humans didn't mess with each other. Reading time 2 minutes A Neanderthal dubbed Thorin just ...

PHILADELPHIA — In an unprecedented feat of forensic anthropology, European researchers extracted enough DNA from two Neanderthal skulls to suggest their owners sported red hair and white skin back ...

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