Scientists can use the differences that have built up over thousands of years to map the journeys our species took out of Africa as we populated the world. To trace their ... as well as how much ...

A team of archaeologists from multiple universities in Germany, Denmark and Iran, used ecological niche modeling and geographic information systems to map out ... 1-2% Neanderthal DNA.

Researchers were able to pull DNA out of tiny bone fragments found in two Russian caves. In their study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they used the genetic data to map out relationships ...

Since these migrants were the ancestors of all people outside of Africa, they took their small bit of Neanderthal DNA with them as they spread out across the world.' Interbreeding may have helped ...

For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images ... the scientific community set out to map the genetic remnants interwoven ...

Modern Africans have an average of 17 megabases of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, according to an analysis published today (January 30) in Cell. While that’s still quite a bit less than the 50-plus ...

Scientists have previously suggested Neanderthal DNA was gradually removed from modern human genomes during the last 45,000 years. But a new study, published last week in PNAS, reports that ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

The Real Neanderthal, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, follows experts around the world as they uncover ... Neanderthal DNA makes up approximately two per cent of the genome of people ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...