WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts ...

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A new Simon Fraser University-led study reveals interbreeding between humans and their ancient cousins, Neanderthals, as the likely origin of a neurological condition estimated to impact up to one per ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

The time frame in which Neandertals and Homo sapiens heavily intermingled just got a little clearer. DNA analyses of ancient and modern H. sapiens reveal that Neandertals spread their genes to humans ...

A fossilized skeleton of a five-year-old child discovered in a prehistoric cave about 90 years ago in the then British-ruled Palestine, has pushed back the timeline for human-Neanderthal interbreeding ...

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