Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—even if that beholder is a barn swallow. Depending on where the birds live, some of them ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Most sickle cell disease patients who received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy have been free from vaso-occlusive crises for ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species ...

Scientists identified early genetic mutations in healthy women’s breast cells that may lead to breast cancer, particularly in ...

Ancient DNA research suggests that our non-African ancestors mixed with Neandertals about 50,000 years ago, resulting in one ...

A genomic study encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neandertal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible mark on human ...

Previous research estimated that any gene flow between them did not leave a mark until more recently ― as early as 65,000 ...