Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

When modern humans emerged from Africa, they explored far more than just new places. They encountered other human species, ...

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.

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) have around 30 times as much DNA as humans, according to a ... the researchers wrote in the paper. Modern lungfish can breathe air using ...

Prof Stringer said initial dispersals of modern humans into Europe may have been by small bands which could not sustain their presence in the face of a larger Neanderthal presence. Indeed ...

Together with an Asian people known as Denisovans, Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. Scientific evidence suggests our two species shared a common ancestor. Current evidence from ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

When modern humans emerged from Africa ... as we still carry Neanderthal DNA millennia later. Archaeologist Saman Guran from Germany's University of Cologne and colleagues used a combination ...

When modern humans emerged from Africa ... as we still carry Neanderthal DNA millennia later. Archaeologist Saman Guran from Germany's University of Cologne and colleagues used a combination of ...