New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

When modern humans migrated out of Africa some ... used similar statistical features to search for Neanderthal DNA in the genomes of 665 living people—but they initially did so without the ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred roughly 60,000 years ago. Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding ...

Their contributions may even go deeper—even to modern ... Humans and Neanderthals could have lived together even earlier than we thought.] “In the last 15 years, since the Neanderthal genome ...

Modern-day humans can have up to 4% DNA in their genes, more commonly people of European origin. And as scientists’ understanding of the ancient genome increases, more and more modern traits are ...

The research provides insights into the demographics of early modern humans. Scientists have pinpointed ... were shown to have 2.9% Neanderthal ancestry, which the authors believe occurred from ...

sapiens. So we can look for bits of Neanderthal DNA sequence in the genomes of modern humans. The genomes of all human lineages originating in Europe contain about 2% Neanderthal DNA sequences.

Not only did they look for Neanderthal DNA in the genetic code of modern humans, but also human DNA in the code of the other ancient species. What they found was that not only were there shared ...

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 ...