Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal man at a human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London. There’s less Neanderthal DNA on humans’ X ...

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

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.” They sit there like blank tape in an ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

The Cro-Magnon name began after five early modern human skeletons were discovered in a French rock shelter in 1868 and were treated as distinct from Neanderthals and living humans. Early anthropology ...

Dating out of your league? New research says it's a tale as old as time. A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit ...

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in the Cell Press journal Cell Genomics on May 21, researchers ...