The Neanderthal Connection Every person alive today carries traces of Neanderthal DNA, typically around 2% of their genome. This genetic legacy comes from interbreeding events between Homo sapiens and ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

Our ancestors lived alongside Neanderthals for nearly 200,000 years, often interbreeding with them. But could they understand ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic ...

About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal living in the mountains of Siberia had one hell of a toothache, and seemingly, decided ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) shared the Earth for thousands of years, walking the same landscapes ...

I read your column “Do Most Whites Have Traces of African DNA, as I Do?” with interest. The questioner in that column was wondering whether the traces of African ancestry in her DNA test entered her ...