In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...
NEW YORK -- A small bone fragment that scientists initially ignored has produced a bonanza: enough Neanderthal DNA to start mapping the genetic code of the stocky and muscular relative of modern ...
BERLIN -- U.S. and German scientists set out Thursday to decipher the genetic code of the Neanderthal, a feat that they hope will help deepen understanding of how the brains of modern humans evolved.
Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have reconstructed a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de ...