They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Scientists have uncovered a genetic variant, inherited from Neanderthals, that may limit athletic performance. The mutation is thought to affect roughly 8% of modern-day Europeans and influences the ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating everything from shifts in the climate to war with modern humans may have ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Neanderthals live on within us. These ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

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The secret to differences between modern humans and Neanderthals appears to have as much to do with which genes are switched on and which are switched off as it does with differences in the raw ...