Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

This process of discovery has increased significantly since we learnt that some humans have Neanderthal DNA, a genetic fingerprint left behind when ancient humans intermixed with this now-extinct ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Their Neanderthal DNA indicates a single wave of interbreeding, likely occurring in the Middle East as modern humans migrated out of Africa. These findings, bolstered by a parallel study ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals ...