Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

A new paper says genes from our extinct Neanderthal ancestors may contribute to some people being “early risers,” due to breeding between archaic humans like Neanderthals and ancestors of modern ...

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The basic outline of the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals is now well established. The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred ...

Shifts in the earth's climate made sex between Neanderthals and Denisovans more common, a new study has found. The study by researchers at South Korea's Pusan National University, which had been ...