New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when ...

Several early modern humans specimens — including ones that left behind fossils in Eastern Europe and Western Siberia — had previously been discovered to contain Neanderthal genes. The studies create ...

New research reveals that gene flow from Neanderthals has left a lasting imprint on modern human genomes. Non-African ...

A recent study published in Nature has unraveled new details about the relationships between early modern humans and ...

“These studies underscore how having even a few ancient genomes provides powerful perspective that enabled the authors to refine our understanding of human migration and Neanderthal introgression.

Recent discoveries have elicited a remarkable refinement in the way evidence has been viewed regarding neanderthals, ancient relatives associated with the modern man who became extinct some 40,000 ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

Africans. 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 ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.