Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

Neanderthals split into distinct regional groups that developed genetic differences far sooner than modern human populations ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

For a brief time in history, humans and Neanderthals shared the Earth, swapping DNA, but the details of that swapping might not be what you expect.

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

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For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Researchers extracted DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment found in Russia's Denisova Cave, and the genome is shedding light ...

This genetic legacy comes from interbreeding events between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals between 47,000 and 65,000 years ago. Some descendants even carried these genes back into Africa around 20,000 ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

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 ...